Podcasts about radio amateurs

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1358 - Full Version Release Date: March 8, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending...This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Alan Shepard, WK8W, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savocool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Approximate Running Time: 1:48:45 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1358 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. ARD: Brandmeister DMR Network To Stop Supporting Some DMR IDs 2. NAB: National Association of Broadcasters Urges FCC To Accelerate NextGen TV Transition 3. WKRN: FCC Chairman Carr Climbs Nexstar Broadcast Tower To Promote Industry Jobs 4. AMSAT: Amateur Satellites Scheduled For Launch 5. AMSAT: Nine New TEVEL Satellites Scheduled For Launch 6. AMSAT: Intuitive Machines' Lunar Lander Beams Back First Images Of Earth - 4G 7. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 8. WIA: British Science Week Gets Underway 9. WIA: No Amateur Radio Fest At The National Association of Broadcasters Show This Year 10. WIA: Remember The Video Chat Service Skype? 11. MSN: Discover The Hidden Stories Behind Your Favorite Devices At This New Huntsville Museum 12. ARRL: 2025 HamSCI Workshop is March 14th and 15th At The New Jersey Institute Of Technology 13. ARRL: Clubs Are Gearing Up For ARRL Ham Radio Open House — Yours Can, Too! 14. ARRL: Hurricane Watch Net Founder Gerald Murphy, K8YUW, a Silent Key 15. ARRL: ARRL Honorary Vice President Frank Butler, W4RH, Celebrates His Centenary 16. First Amateur Radio Club Station Is Installed At University of West Bengal 17. India Foundation Prepares For An Upcoming DxPedition 18. Three Kilmolin Cluster Beacons Are Shut Down To Relocate 19. Ham Radio In Brazil Outlined In Recent Survey 20. ARRL Presents the next On The Air Live for March 25, 2025 21. ARRL: Upcoming RadioSport Contests and Regional Convention Listings 22. RSGB: Radio Society of Great Britain Announce 2025 Band Plans 23. AMSAT: Hades R satellite repeater is activated and designated Spain Oscar 124 or SO-124 24. AMSAT: Solar Sails aim to enhance future space weather alerts 25. WIA: Australian Regulator ACMA finalizes license fee structures - New Zealand looks for proposal comments 26. WIA: Libyan Communications Amateur Society is admitted to the International Amateur Radio Union 27. WIA/RAC: Mike Kelly, VE3FFK is the recipient of the Radio Amateurs of Canada Amateur of the Year Award 28. VOA: Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting History reopens after seven month renovation 29. ARRL: Colorado High School students visit The Plishner Radio Astronomy Center 30. ARRL: How about some Pi with that transceiver? 31. ARRL: Hap Holly, KC9RP, moderator and creator of The RAIN Report is a Silent Key 32. ARRL: Registration begins mid-March for the 24th USA National Radio Orienteering Championship 33. RaDar/Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio is coming soon 34. Radio astronomers in a radio quiet zone battle RF Interference as combined technologies offer to assist 35. Volunteer Monitor Report for this month Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question, What's the story you like to tell yourself? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of A Century Of Amateur Radio. This week, Will takes us back to the early 1920's, when among a lot of other things, the US Navy was pressing for control of the airwaves again. We will here all about this and more in this edition entitled "Strays" ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: https://x.com/TWIAR Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiar.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari YouTube: https://bit.ly/TWIARYouTube RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated (Full Static file, updated weekly): https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 Automated (1-hour Static file, updated weekly): https://www.twiar.net/TWIAR1HR.mp3 ----- This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

Imagine there is a widespread wireless communications failure, and amateur radio is all that is left to maintain contact with other places in North America. This is the scenario that will test the skills of radio amateurs in a mock communications disaster this weekend. 

Foundations of Amateur Radio I recently discussed some of the notions of amateur radio as emergency response. The idea that you might jump into the breach and be a hero is appealing and often celebrated. The American Radio Relay League, or ARRL, proudly tells the story of two amateur radio emergency communication events. One, of a person who fell in their bathroom and happened to have a handheld radio that they used to contact another amateur who contacted emergency services. The story goes on to say that being part of the Amateur Radio Emergency Services or ARES had taught the amateurs the ITU phonetic alphabet, as-if that's not a requirement for getting your amateur license. Then there's the story of two teenagers who were critically injured in a remote area and amateur radio rescued them due to a contact with a random local amateur. Never mind that there was a local off-duty EMT who actually stabilised the patients. While you might point at this as "amateur radio to the rescue", to me this is a case of people attempting to make the story about amateur radio. If the person in the bathroom happened to have a mobile phone nearby, the story would not have even made the nightly news and if the people in the remote area had actually prepared properly, they'd have had an emergency position-indicating radiobeacon or EPIRB and a satellite phone, rather than accidentally bumping into a random radio amateur. Moving on. Have you ever noticed that your mobile phone stops working after a couple of hours during a power outage? It's because mobile phone towers run on batteries that depending on load might last up to 12 hours, often much less than that, anywhere from down when the power goes out to 3 hours until the batteries fail. Note that I'm not talking about the battery in your phone, I'm talking about the ones in the tower serving your phone. I mentioned previously that there was a network outage affecting 40% of the Australian population. The get-out-of jail card was that the rest of the population still had mobile, landline and internet connectivity. What would happen if the other network operator also went down? Is there a place for amateur radio in those scenarios? Let's explore. If all mobile, telephone and internet networks were down, what would that look like? Could you call an ambulance or the fire department using amateur radio? Who would you talk to, on what frequency and on which radio would they be listening? Would you set up your portable shack in the local hospital or fire station? Would ambulances and fire services be able to coordinate during such an outage, or would you have your local amateur club ride-along on every ambulance and fire truck? What does such a system look like in actuality? Has there been any planning or training for this? Are there refresher courses and special certifications? Does your local community have anything like this in place, or are you starting from scratch? During widespread and long lasting fire emergencies in Australia, radio amateurs have acted as emergency services radio operators. There is at least one amateur club where, years ago, the members underwent special training with the local State Emergency Services to learn their language and procedures, just in case it becomes short staffed when an actual emergency occurs. I've often said that doing contests is a good way to learn how best to operate your station and how to work in adverse environments with lots of interference, man-made or otherwise. The reality is that it's more likely than not that you'll be using a line-of-sight FM radio in the emergency services communications bunker than sitting in the rubble of your shack using HF with a wire antenna running off battery trying to get someone, anyone, to help you and your community. There are official amateur radio emergency organisations, WICEN in Australia, ARES and RACES in the United States. Much is made by these organisations about joining and training, but very little in the way of actual emergency response. Is that a marketing issue, or are these types of organisations obsolete and waiting to be disbanded? My point is this. If amateur radio is really a service as the WIA states, "A Trusted Partner in Emergency Response", or as the ARRL puts it, "When All Else Fails", even making that a registered trademark, where is the evidence of their activity, where are the annual reports, the after action lessons learnt, the inter-team competitions, the talks at local clubs, the league tables of emergencies handled, lives saved and babies born? To give you insight into just how broken this is, any licensed amateur can become a member of ARES, but you can only read their newsletter if you're a member of the ARRL. In Australia, for a while, the WIA offered a course for Public Safety Training for Radio Amateurs, but only to amateurs with an Advanced license, which I discovered after spending $633.92 to print out, collate and bind the 973 pages of course material, as-if those of a lesser amateur radio qualification somehow were less able to read a map, operate communications equipment, follow defined occupational health and safety policies and procedures, work effectively in a public safety organisation, as part of a team, or in an emergency operations centre. So, what's your plan for providing amateur radio as a service? I'm Onno VK6FLAB

Jonathan Taylor, K1RFD, has reached his 50th year has a ham radio operator, is the creator of Echolink, one of the first amateur radio Voice over Internet Service linking amateur radio stations, the receiver of technical innovation awards, and author of "VoIP: Internet Linking for Radio Amateurs", now in its second edition.  K1RFD checks all of the ham radio boxes for operating, homebrewing, software development, radio restoration, and is my QSO Today.

Ante Laurijssen, VA2BBW, enjoys the simple amateur radio art of chasing DX and making contacts on CW, and  operating QRP, from Gatineau, in Southwest Quebec, Canada . When operating POTA, Ante taught himself to send CW with his left while recording his log with his right hand.  VA2BBW is the Radio Amateurs of Canada Awards Manager, enjoys giving back to the hobby, and is my QSO Today.

WIA Director Chris Dimitrijevic VK3FY plus news of a rescue in the Hinterland of the Gold Coast thanks to Radio Amateurs.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1281 Release Date: September 16, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:54:58 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1281 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: World Radio Conference 2023 Will Impact Amateur Satellite Service 2. AMSAT: ARISS USA Team Names New Director of Education 3. AMSAT: Updated AMSAT Tri-Fold Hand Out Brochure Now Available 4. BIPT: Belgian Amateurs Gain Small Allocation On 40 Megahertz 5. BBC: Radio Fans In The UK Launch Petition To Save BBC Longwave Service 6. WIA: Malaysia Airlines Missing Flight From 2014 May Have Been Found By WSPR 7. NZART: Celebrate Grandparents On The Air On The Grandparents Grandkids Amateur Radio Net 8. IOTA: Islands On The Air Establishes DXpedition Fund 9. FCC: Anna Gomez Confirmed As Fifth FCC Commissioner 10. DLARC: Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications Reaches 90,000 Items 11. ARRL: Hurricane Lee: Amateur Radio Service In State Of Readiness, Activations Planned 12. ARRL: 2023 SET Exercise To Test Skills and Emergency Preparedness 13. ARRL: Amateur Radio Serves In Large Utah Bike Race 14. ARRL: Changes Announced In The ARRL Louisiana Section 15. ARRL: ARRL Has Announced That Certificates Are Now Available For New Club Level Awards 16. ARRL: Steve Lang Will Become Head Of The U.S. Delegation To WRC-23 17. ARRL: 2023 Route 66 On the Air Special Event Is Up and Running 18. United States Military Is Eyeing The Possibility Of Using Wideband Above 100 GigaHertz 19. It Is Unclear If There Were Any Amateur Radio Deployments In The Moroccan and Libyan Disasters 20. The Planned Salvage Of The Titanic's Wireless Equipment Is Blocked By The US Government 21. New Investors Are Interested In Purchasing HamTestOnLine 22. New Experimental Low Pass Filter Makes Its London Debut 23. West Bengal Radio Club Reunites A Family After A Sixteen Year Absence 24. Radio Station In Germany Begins Full Time Artificial Intelligence Programming 25. Historic Town In Pennsylvania Celebrates Its 275th Birthday With A Special Event Station 26. Upcoming contests, conventions and hamfests 27. WOSH celebrates a birthday 28. RAC: September is Radio Amateurs of Canadas Straight Key Month 29. WIA: International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 will hold its next general conference in November 30. ARRL: September is National Preparedness Month Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, reminisces about user groups, asks why do equipment manufacturers insist on ultra-bright LED's, and about his problems with drones. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News. * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will address climbing with and for other hams. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell you how how to check your attenuation numbers. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL. * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Bill takes us back to the World Radio Conference of 1927 and looks at its effect on amateur radio. * The Rain Report we will listen to a talk by avid contester Mitch Stern/W1SJ, at the Dayton HamVention titled: "There is an art to cracking pile ups on the HF bands". ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on X! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1263 Release Date: May 13, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, William Savacool, K2SAV, Bob Donlon. W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:05:54 SPECIAL EXPANDED EDITION w/W2VU CQ Magazine Interview Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: * SPECIAL DAYTON PREVIEW EDTION * Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1263 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Saudi Arabia to launch largest radio telescope in Middle East 2. ARRL Ready to Welcome Attendees at Dayton Hamvention 2023 3. ARRL Helps Radio Amateurs Comply with New RF Exposure Evaluation Rules 4. New World Distance Record Is Set On 430 MegaHertz 5. Reminder: Complete the ARRL Dues Survey Before May 31st 2023 6. Dayton Hamvention 2023 Ready To Go - A Close Up Look At The ARRL Forums At Dayton - PART ONE 7. Dayton Hamvention 2023 Ready To Go - A Close Up Look At The ARRL Forums At Dayton - PART TWO 8. Dayton Hamvention 2023 Ready To Go - A Close Up Look At The ARRL Forums At Dayton - PART THREE 9. National Hurricane Center Amateur Radio Station Annual Test 10. Virginia Beach Amateur Radio Club Receives Commendation 11. Ohio's Rooster Net Has Good Company 12. Dr. Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, Will Be The Guest Speaker at the 2023 TAPR/AMSAT Hamvention Banquet 13. Puerto Rico's Amateurs Celebrated Dia del Radioaficionado on Tuesday, May 9th 14. 2023 National Hurricane Conference Was Held April 4th and 5th 15. Amateurs In West Bengal Help A Family Reconnect 16. Youth DX Adventure Has Been Cancelled For 2023 17. RF Exposure Compliance Is Now Mandatory and The ARRL Can Help 18. Amateurs In The Caribbean Area Gear Up For The Upcoming Storm Season 19. AMSAT Releases Its 2023 Commemorative Coin 20. Amateur Radio Museum Opens In Ohio 21. Scientists Create Denser and Thinner Computer Chips 22. LATE BREAKING: Congresswoman Lesko Reintroduces Bill to Replace Symbol Rate Limit with Bandwidth Limit 23. Upcoming Conventions, Hamfests, and Contest listing 24. The 2023 Dayton HamVention Awards Are Announced - Part One 25. The 2023 Dayton HamVention Awards Are Announced - Part Two 26. The Digital Library Of Amateur Radio and Communications Surpasses 75,000 Items On Ham Radio and More 27. Australia's ACMA Moves Ahead On Starting A New License Class 28. Maine's plan to study 5G worries amateur operators in the state 29. Bryan Rawlings VE3QN is inducted into the Radio Amateurs of Canada Hall of Fame Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will discuss the transition between analog and ones and zeros, that has fueled the digital revolution. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, leaves his climbing gear in the shack again this week for Part Five of his Six part series on producing a successful public service announcement to publicize your clubs upcoming event on local broadcast radio. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, is looking forward to and will talk about propagation during the 2023 Australian Solar Eclipse * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to 1978. The year the FCC banned non-type accepted 11 meter rigs, curtailed the sale of RF amplifiers between 24 and 35 Megahertz, and it was the year that technicians finally got allocated the entire two meter band and more. * SPECIAL: Courtesy of The Rain Report, we will have an interview with Rich Moseson, W2VU - The Man Behind CQ Magazine. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1262 Release Date: May 6, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:59:26 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1262 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. 2023 Hamvention Awards Are Announced - PART ONE 2. 2023 Hamvention Awards Are Announced - PART TWO 3. DLARC Radio Library Surpasses 75,000 Items of Ham Radio, Shortwave History 4. National Radio Astronomy Observatory Program Looking for Students 18-20 Years Old to Learn About Spectrum 5. ARRL Ready To Welcome Attendees At Dayton Hamvention 2023 6. ARRL Helps Radio Amateurs Comply With New RF Exposure Evaluation Rules 7. USA Amatuer Radio Direction Finding 2023 Championships Results Are Announced 8. The Rooster Net: For Whom the Rooster QSOs! For 65 Years! 9. New York State Citizen Preparedness Corp Offer Training Event 10. The 2023 New England QSO Party Is On The Air May 6th and 7th, 2023 11. Australian Communications and Media Authority In Australia Moves Ahead On Starting A New License Class 12. Maines Plan To Study 5G Worries Amateurs In The State 13. John Knipping AA9KC From The Freewheelers Net On 80 Meters SK 14. Amateur Radio Special Event Goes Milling About 15. Hams In The UK Mark The Anniversary Of The Dam Busters Raid 16. Smartphones Can Now Connect Users Via Satellite 17. Amateurs Around The World Prepare For The Armed Forces Day Crossband Test 18. RAC: Bryan Rawlings VE3QN is inducted into the Radio Amateurs of Canada Hall of Fame 19. RAC: Weather spotting workshop "Beyond CanWarn and Q&A Event" is coming up soon 20. The FCC issues a reminder about foreign investment information, foreign ownership of broadcast stations 21. Upcoming contests, conventions and hamfests 22. FCC Warns Portland Church To Shut Down Pirate FM Operating Under Its Steeple 23. AMSAT Fox-Plus Progress Report - PART ONE 24. AMSAT Fox-Plus Progress Report - PART TWO 25. Houston AMSAT Net Tops 1500 Sessions 26. Youth On the Air Camp For The Americas Announced 27. Look What I Found! - Parts Of The Failed SpaceX Launch Wash Up On Shore 28. FCC Chief Rosenworcel Says 6G Is Coming Sooner Than You Think 29. NASA's International Space Station Communications Disrupted By Argentinian Taxi Driver Radio 30. ARRL Advocates For Radio Amateurs As FCC Proposes Changes To The 60 Meter Band 31. International Marconi Day: National Parks Director Makes QSO 32. The ARRL Invites Member Comments On Proposed Dues Increase Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, takes a nostalgic look back at the early search engines on the internet, and will take a look at how the internet and big tech are both good and bad. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Our Tower Climbing and Antenna master, Greg Stoddard, KF9MP, leaves his climbing gear in the shack to bring us Part Four of his Six part series on writing a successful Public Service Announcement to promote your clubs hamfest or special event on local broadcast radio. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will take a look at "Doing The Same Thing Over and Over" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to January of 1977, which finds the FCC totally swamped by applications for Citizen Band Licenses which were arriving at the rate of over 500K a month. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1259 Release Date: April 15, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Bill (Savo) Savacool, K2SAV, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:26:51 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1259 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. UPDATE: NASA Selects Three Amateurs For Artemis Moon Mission 2. 14th Annual Tucson Amateur Packet Radio and AMSAT Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation Banquet Scheduled 3. Russia's New Mystery Shortwave Station 4. Federal Communications Commission Formally Launches Space Bureau 5. World Amateur Radio Day Special Event Coming Up April 18th, 2023 6. National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting Open During 2023 Dayton Hamvention 7. Amateur Radio Software Award Announces 2023 Award Winner 8. 2023 Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers Announce Eastern Conference 9. The ARRL Rookie Roundup This Weekend 10. FT8 Digital Mode Club Creates FT4 Club With New Awards 11. Astronomers Discover New ExoPlanet Via Radio Waves 12. New Space Record Is Set By An Astronaut Aboard The International Space Station 13. Australian Ham Gives Amateur Radio A Ride 14. Revived Western Electric Factory Takes On Making A Vacuum Tube Comeback In The United States 15. Radio Society of Great Britain Seeks A Technical Director For RadCom Magazine 16. Congresswoman Debbie Lesko, (AZ-08), attended the DeVry Hamfest in Phoenix, Arizona 17. Upcoming contests, conventions and hamfest listings 18. Scientist Is Honored For Emergency Preparatory Work 19. ARRL Welcomes Sierra Harrop, W5DX, as Public Relations and Outreach Manager 20. Ria Jairam, N2RJ, Joins Amateur Radio Digital Communications Board Of Directors 21. Federal Communications Commission Adopts New Equipment Authorization Testing Standards 22. Hamvention 2023 Is Getting Ready 23. Time To Make Preparations For Field Day 2023 24. Radio Amateurs of Canada Get On The Air On World Amateur Radio Day Special Event Tuesday, April 18, 2023 25. SpaceX Asks FCC For 30,000 Extra Satellites Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will tell us how to use MoCa (Multimedia Over Coax) and PowerLine Network Adaptors to circumvent a busy wi-fi network, and he will tell us that Apple is now making it's own chips for its new line of desktop computers. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, begins a timely four part series on how to write a public service announcement to publicise your upcoming hamfest on broadcast radio. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question How Much Antenna Is Enough? * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to 1962 when everyone was listening to the first OSCAR or Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio satellite say Hi! The ham population continues to grow as the FCC is running out of call signs and proposes the first license fees, and declares that the Technician License is not a stepping stone to the next class off license. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1258 Release Date: April 8, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:34:17 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1258 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. ARRL Welcomes Sierra Harrop, W5DX, as Public Relations and Outreach Manager 2. The International Space Station Becomes A Time Traveler 3. Ria Jairam, N2RJ, Joins Amateur Radio Digital Communications Board Of Directors 4. Ohio's New Distracted Driver Law Exempts Amateur Radio 5. Pennsylvania Beaver Valley Amateur Radio Association Celebrates 100 Year Anniversary 6. Federal Communications Commission Adopts New Equipment Authorization Testing Standards 7. NASA Names Three Hams For Artemis II Moon Mission Crew 8. Hamvention 2023 Is Getting Ready 9. Time To Get Ready For Field Day 2023 10. The Lewis and Clark Trail On The Air Special Event 11. Canadian Amateurs Can Participate In UK Coronation Of King Charles III 12. Tornadoes Bring Amateurs In Arkansas On The Air To Pass Traffic 13. Charity DXpedition To Rockall Island Is Coming Up 14. Amateurs In The US Mark An Anniversary With A Canadian Ferry 15. Virgin Orbit Closes Its Satellite Launch Operations 16. International Telecommunications Union Opens A Office In New Delhi 17. The Upcoming Eclipse Will Be Observed In Australia Via Radio 18. Special Event Station To Feature Retired Cosmonaut On The Air 19. Clipperton Island DXpedition Plans Are Moving Ahead 20. World Wide Flora and Fauna Special Event To Activate Callsign VKFF 21. Ford Motor Company Confirms Elimination Of AM Radio Receivers In 2024 Models 22. Amateur Radio Activity Honors African American Heritage 23. Radio Amateurs of Canada Get On The Air On World Amateur Radio Day Special Event Tuesday, April 18, 2023 24. One Man's Quest to Revive the Great American Vacuum Tube 25. SpaceX Asks FCC For 30,000 Extra Satellites 26. Upcoming Contests, Conventions and HamFests 27. ARRL Announces Leadership Changes In the Hudson Division 28. World Amateur Radio Day Is Coming Up On April 18th, 2023 29. The ARRL Laboratory is looking for new staff members and engineers 30. The ACMA/Australian Communications and Media Authority puts its proposed new amateur license on hold 31. Ofcom in the United Kingdom approves a temporary callsign for the upcoming Coronation 32. ARDC/Amateur Radio Digital Communications gives a large grant for a new university amateur radio station Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, will get us up to speed by demystifying the alphabet soup regarding the purchasing of a new TV or monitor for your shack. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will stress that you should always have two attachment points to the tower when you climb. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, Onno will describe how he is Lost in Space this week as he talks about the first contacts that amateurs made in space. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to see what life was like as an amateur in the year 1958. He will take a look at early satellites, how the FCC takes 11 meters away from amateurs and creates Citizen Band, how amateurs were required to monitor Conelrad while on the air, and will look at equipment that debuted in 1958. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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NewsWest for Sunday 20th November 2022 is the History of Amateur Radio edition, and we recount stories of the early days of Amateur Radio in Western Australia, some of which form the basis for our claim to Amateur Radio broadcasts in VK6 since 1931. We spend a bit of time talking about the ACMA's consultation on the class license and the proposed one-kilowatt transmit power for Advanced licensees. We urge you to study the material, discuss it with other people and have your say. We also talk about change and the time to move on. This is NewsWest, VK6ARN, where you hear all of the story. No censorship, no persons excluded, and no rocket ships. It's all Amateur Radio News for Radio Amateurs. NewsWest can be heard on-air, online, on-screen, and on demand. Find out how to hear NewsWest at our website, vk6 dot net. You can contact the news team with an email to newswest@vk6.net NewsWest is now available in video format - click here https://tinyurl.com/2ge9tpa7 NewsWest invites programme contributions. You can send yours as email attachments to newswest@vk6.net - our editorial policy is that items should be about Amateur Radio, and relating to, or of interest to, Radio amateurs in Western Australia. Originating in Perth Western Australia, NewsWest is produced by WA Amateur Radio News for listeners on-air, online and on-demand. Whichever way you're listening, whether you're a licensed radio amateur or not, experienced or just a beginner, old or young, thanks for being here and thanks for joining us. Web: http://vk6.net Email: newswest@vk6.net Producer: Bob VK6POP Folge direkt herunterladen

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1231 Release Date: October 1, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:26:33 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1231 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. South African Amateur Radio League Proposed Next Generation Radio Frequency Spectrum Policy 2. FCC Grants an ARRL Emergency Request to Permit Higher Data Rate Transmissions for Hurricane Relief Comms 3. Hurricane Watch Net Update for Ian 4. World Radio Conference 2023 - 23cm Amateur - Radio Navigation Satellite Service Co-Existence Study Report 5. Radio Amateurs of Canada Reorganization Effective January 1, 2023 6. Amateur Radio Operators Continue Response to Hurricane Ian 7. Doreen Bogdan-Martin, KD2JTX, is Elected as Next International Telecommunications Union Secretary General 8. Brian Daly, WB7OML, Receives AT&T Fellows Honor 9. Club Grant Application Period Now Open Until November 4th 2022 10. Still Time To Register For The 2022 NASA International Space Apps Challenge 11. Mid Cornwall Beacon and Repeater Group Activate Three New CW and FT8 Beacons 12. Online Voting For ARRL Southeastern Division Election 13. Hams Assist In A Cross-Border Family Reunion 14. New York Engineering Firm Releases Paper That Pinpoints Facts In The Collapse Of The Arecibo Telescope 15. Radio Society Of Great Britain Unveils New Tool For Amateurs To Measure EMF 16. Radio Club In Tennessee Donates Amateur Radio Books To Local Library 17. Hams Celebrate The Original Voice Mode During The AM QSO Party 18. Amateur News From Australia: World Portable Event / ACMA Seeks Input On New License Class 19. Upcoming contests, conventions, and ham fests 20. Mid Century Television - Live, Local and Unpredictable late 1950s television 21. Electronics Notes publishes a comprehensive how to on building an effective HF dipole antenna 22. Amateur radio satellite carrying APRS from Zimbabwe, ZimSat-1, scheduled for launch from the Space Station 23. Ukraine amateur radio satellite may launch November via SpaceX satellite Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about the newly implemented "Snoopers Act", better known as "The Investigatory Powers Act", in the U.K. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about the various methods of sealing coax connections on your tower and antennas in general. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about, what he calls, "The Patriot and Amateur Radio" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to the very beginnings of Amateur Radio. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including Acast, Deezer, iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castbox.fm, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, OverCast, Player.FM, Pandora, Podcast Gang, Podcast Republic, Podchaser, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1230 Release Date: September 24, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:35:00 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1230 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel Lists Wireless Policy Objectives 2. U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Project Has a Four Year Program to Tackle a Fundamental Antenna Challenge 3. New ARRL Section Managers Meet for Training 4. ARRL Simulated Emergency Test Adds New Online Forms 5. Crossband Activation of Battleship Iowa's NEPM Call Sign Scheduled in Memory of Pearl Harbor 6. FCC Tracks Communication Outages in Puerto Rico Post Hurricane Fiona 7. Amateur Radio Operators Track Hurricane Fiona 8. Girl Scouts Receive ARRL Radio and Wireless Technology Patches 9. Three Hams Make the Most of an Emergency Scenario 10. The Big E Space Chat Is A Go For Tuesday, September 27, 2022 11. Andy Clift, G6PJZ, Receives The Coveted Summits on the Air Mountain Goat Status 12. Hams, CB Operators and Private Mobile Radio In Switzerland Practice Disaster Readiness 13. 2023 Youth On The Air To Take Place In Canada 14. Next Generation Amateur Satellite Is Being Prepared In China 15. Special Event Station To Mark Voice Of America's 78th Anniversary 16. Amateur In The UK Logs First Ever Contact on 8 Meters with South Africa 17. Australian Amateur Radio Conference and Exposition Opens Registration 18. Amateurs In The England Activate Foxfield Steam Railways 19. 40th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and General Meeting, October 21 - 22, 2022 20. US female radio amateur in running for International Telecommunications Union Top Job 21. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, and crewmates arrive safely at Space Station 22. Magnitude 7.9 Solar Flare quiets a quarter of the globe last week 23. Switzerland's USKA aim to make amateur radio stations available to support the civilian population in power shortages 24. The largest commercial communications array ever has just launched, and could out shine the planets. 64 meters 25. Solar Panels: Brazilian radio hams at ElectroMagnetic Compatibility Workshop 26. United Kingdom - Ofcom to probe cloud, messenger and smart-device markets 27. Open Day Special Event - Paisley Amateur Radio Club Special Event Station 28. WRTH - The World Radio and TV Handbook Continues! 29. Amateur Radio Helps A Disabled Sail Boat To Port 30. The Radio Amateurs of Canada asks hams to comment on proposed call sign changes 31. Radio amateurs in the Ukraine diligently maintain radio silence 32. Select upcoming contests, conventions, and hamfest listing Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, takes a nostalgic look back at the early search engines on the internet, and will take a look at how the internet and big tech are both good and bad. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will explain what the correct proceedure is to mount your vertical antenna, upside down. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us how to "Find a balance in the Amateur Radio Hobby" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * The latest from Parks On The Air and Summits On The Air (May 2022 Report) with Vance Martin, N3VEM * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with the final edition of his summer series entitled Amateur Radio History Headlines. In this final edition, Bill will take us back to look at the news that made the ham radio headlines during the years 1978 thru 1982. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including Acast, Deezer, iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castbox.fm, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, OverCast, Player.FM, Pandora, Podcast Gang, Podcast Republic, Podchaser, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

QNEWS - SEPTEMBER 25 VK4 ON AIR ---------------------------------------------------------------------* THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICE Available in Audio RIGHT NOW http://www.wiaq.org.au/ftp/vk4_qnews_64.mp3 Also, search QNEWS (make sure it IS the Ham Radio QNEWS) in your podcast. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* VK4 SILENT KEYS @ WIA YEAR COMMENCING MAY 2022 SK CALL SK NAME DATE ADVISED BY VK4MBH Keith Allison 03/06/2022 (vk4vp) VK4AVF Des Flor 13/06/2022 (vk4hit) VK4DV Merv Deakin 18/06 (vk4cnq - vk4zz) VK4SO Les Parker 21/06 (vk4atc) VK4AJL George Glendinning 22/06 (vk4zz) VK4NW Warwick Marshallsea 14/07 (vk4vp) VK4ET/5WC Tony Van Lysdonk 16/07 (vk4vp) VK4SF Jack Ford 18/07 vk4hit) VK4AVS Jim Storch 22/07 (vk4zz) VK4AGS Geoff Strom 23/08 (vk4zz) VK4HGT George Turner 02/09 (vk4gcr) VK4DK Stanley 'Dave' West 08/09 (vk4zz) News has been received that long-time member and former Secretary and Treasurer of the Tablelands Radio and Electronics Club, Dave West ex VK4DK & VK4ADW & VK4ZMD of Atherton went Silent Key in Atherton Hospital on 8th September after a two-year battle with Parkinson's Disease. Dave was a very active RadioAmateur, a dedicated member of Lions International, a foundation member of the Tablelands Radio and Electronics Club Inc. and for a while a member of The Townsville Amateur Radio Club Inc. Dave was a very accomplished musician and it didn't take much to convince him to belt out a tune on his trusty guitar at amateur radio field days and social events. Dave's Celebration of Life was held on Monday 19th September 2022 at Mountain View Chapel, Guilfoyle Tablelands Crematorium, Atherton. Dave's service was well attended by family and friends plus a strong contingent of TRECians. Dave's dedication to duty with fun and his virtuoso musical skills will be extremely missed. Vale Dave West ex VK4DK & VK4ADW, Silent Key. (VK4ZZ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------* CLUBBING GLADSTONE AR CLUB "Radio_Active". http://www.wia.org.au/clubs/vk4/GladstoneAmateurRadioClub/ IRLP Node 6246 I'm Mark VK4 Xray Mike Charlie and The Gladstone Amateur Radio Club would like to invite Radio Amateurs and their families to the Tannum Sands Gathering, Saturday 5th of November 2022. Accommodation is also available at the scenic beachside Tannum Sands Holiday and Caravan Park where the main event will be held from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM including a BBQ-style lunch with dessert & free tea and coffee available. We have a Major radio prizes raffle, our mega-draw raffle, radio equipment auctions and VHF fox-hunting just for fun. Please RSVP by October 28th for catering purposes. For event inquiries email GladstoneAmateurRadioClub@gmail.com or find us on Facebook. Looking forward to seeing you there Saturday 5th of November! Mark VK4XMC ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Hello, I'm Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I've been thinking. This past week has seen perhaps the biggest series of media events that the English-speaking and international communities have witnessed with the coverage of the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. The fluidity of the coverage is a credit to the planning that has been continuing for some years but the technology has been amazing to witness in its results. For older members of the community, memories remain of the cinema footage at the beginnings of the second Elizabethan era and then have progressed through monochrome TV to what we saw, this past week. For all of us with an enthusiasm for things electronic, we have witnessed major progress in the field. As an aside, there was a certain confusion caused by messages put out that the AX prefix might be used as a memorial to Her Majesty. It was noted that this was contrary to our rule book, the LCDs and an inference was drawn that compliance action was not a priority by the ACMA. Apart from the fact that pirate operation would invalidate any claims for contacts submitted for awards it was the fact that the spirit of our pursuit was being called into disrepute that worried many operators. We should not encourage the breach of the regulations under which we are licenced. It can be hoped that no supposedly sanctioned breaches are advertised in future. As a service, we strive to be correct in our operations and not place our Regulator in an embarrassing position. For people who have been around some time, the CB heyday was back in the 1980s and many people got their first experience of personal two-way radio communications at that time. One group of people who saw the benefit of radio were many who suffered from chronic illness and disability. No longer were they depending on the telephone, the landline, for outside contact but with simple commercially available the equipment they could enjoy conversation with numerous other people and on HF this could be local and international DX. So where are we today? Are we reaching out to spread the word to people who were once “shut in” and displaying what our selection of the radio hobby can offer? It occurs to me that within the terms of NDIS and Homecare packages, good arguments can be presented for funding equipment to sustain social contact and hobby interests. Surely there is an entry point for amateur radio and CB to again become popular recreations in the digitally connected world. Yes, there are plenty of means of messaging via video, audio and text but there is that other perspective that radio brings, the capacity to meet spontaneously. Further, there is the mind-stretching that learning about radio brings which is quite different to games running on a device and there is the satisfaction of trialling various forms of experimentation. Yes, I am biased in favour of radio and amateur radio in particular but isn't it something to share around? I'm Geoff Emery VK4ZPP and that's what I think....how about you? ---------------------------------------------------------------------* 2022 Social Scene VK4 - Nov 5 Tannum Sands Gathering with Gladstone ARC (vk4zz) VK4 - GOLD COAST HAMFEST Nov 13. @ Country Paradise Parklands TO SUPPLY QNEWS ITEMS:- Send SCRIPT to qnews@wia.org.au and send audio to http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/upload/ QNEWS Tips to get MORE out of your weekly newscast on VK4WIA If you would like to submit club news items for inclusion in QNEWS broadcasts, please email your item in text to:- qnews@wia.org.au THEN submit audio:- To submit audio email qnews@wia.org.au and ask for the current password then read "how to submit items" on the weekly news page on http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/contribute/ Remember the sooner you submit audio material the more the likelihood of it being broadcast in the very next edition QNEWS. Each item will only be broadcast once, if you want a couple of mentions, please submit different slants to keep your event 'fresh .‘

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1229 Release Date: September 17, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:23:40 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1229 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. 23 Centimeter Amateur Band and The Radio Navigation Satellite Service Coexistence September Update 2. WRTH - The World Radio TV Handbook Continues! 3. 104 Year Old Ham is On the Air 4. 100th Anniversary of the Reading Pennsylvania Radio Club 5. Hawaii Big Wind Drill Successfully Tests Emergency Radio Communications 6. Amateur Radio Helps Disabled Sailboat to Port 7. Amateur Radio Takes Center Stage at The Big E Exposition In Massachusetts 8. Southern Ohio and Lawrence County Ohio Clubs To Hold Training Event 9. FCC Asks Satellite Companies For A Five Year Disposal Plan For Defunct Satellites 10. US Agency Looking At Developing Smaller Antennas For Increased Performance 11. More Hams In Africa Gain Access To The Sixty Meter Band 12. Radio Society of Great Britain Cancels Jubilee Activities On The Air Following Queens Death 13. New Entry Level Amateur Class License Is Proposed In Germany 14. Radio Amateurs of Canada Asks Hams To Comment On Proposed Callsign Changes 15. Exams For China's Class C License Have Been Rescheduled 16. New Repeater Is Dedicated To Six Broadcast Engineers Who Perished On 9-11 17. ARRL Foundation Grant Makes An Arkansas School Club Come To Life 18. 1500 Pounds Of Radio Gear Set Sail For The Upcoming Palau DxPedition 19. Radio amateurs in Ukraine diligently maintaining radio silence 20. The Starlink Incident. How a minor geomagnetic storm brough down dozens of Starlink Satellites. 21. Upcoming Contests, conventions and HamFests 22. China to hold ham radio exam session to be held in Beijing 23. Amateur radio makes the connection to save lives in Wisconsin and Idaho 24. New Zealand resident fined for importing hand held transceivers without a license or permit 25. Ofcom to release 700 MHz spectrum for PSNI/Police Service of Northern Ireland 26. RSGB announcements following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 27. International Amateur Radio Union Region One monthly HF bands interference report Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT. We jump back in time to August of 2021 with a Best of The Tech Guy as Leo wishes a Happy 40th Birthday to the original IBM PC, with a retrospective look back. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, looks at tower mounted electronics with a look at his latest 900 MegaHertz installation. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, continues his look at the Amateurs Code. This week it is "Being Friendly on Amateur Radio." * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * The latest from Parks On The Air and Summits On The Air (May 2022 Report) with Vance Martin, N3VEM * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of his summer series, Amateur Radio History Headlines. This week bill looks at the headlines that made the amateur radio news during the period between 1987 and 1991. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including Acast, Deezer, iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castbox.fm, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, OverCast, Player.FM, Pandora, Podcast Gang, Podcast Republic, Podchaser, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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GB2RS News Sunday the 18th of September 2022 The news headlines: RSGB HQ and the National Radio Centre closed on Monday Special Regional Secondary Locator RSGB Convention latest Our thoughts are very much with the Royal Family as they mourn the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The RSGB will be closing its HQ and the RSGB National Radio Centre on Monday the 19th of September, the day of the Queen's state funeral, as a mark of respect. In response to requests from radio amateurs and after contact from Ofcom, the RSGB will be making available the special Regional Secondary Locator of Q. Any licensed radio amateur may choose to use this after their UK callsign prefix to show their respect for the Queen if they wish to do so. For example, GQ4LFM, MQ1ACB or 2Q0ABC. It will be available until the end of official national mourning on Monday the 19th of September. Radio amateurs will need to download the Notice of Variation that is available from the RSGB website at rsgb.org/nov. You may be interested to note that Australian amateurs may use the AX prefix between the 19th and the 23rd of September to commemorate the life of Queen Elizabeth II. The RSGB Convention will take place from the 7th to the 9th of October. The online booking system for overnight packages, dinners and day tickets will close on the 2nd of October. The latest information can be found at rsgb.org/convention Don't forget that all three UK amateur radio exams may be taken online at this year's RSGB Convention. The Foundation and Intermediate exam will take place on Saturday and the Full exam on Sunday morning. You will need to book a place via the online form before the 26th of September. Applications will not be accepted on the day. If you have a question, please email exams@rsgb.org.uk or you can book your place via the link on the RSGB's Convention web page at rsgb.org/convention. The RSGB is bringing its Jubilee activities to a close as a mark of respect for the Queen. The Society's website is being updated and the Innovation 70 award has been cancelled. If you have collected QSOs between the 1st and the 30th of June for the Jubilee Award 70, you may still submit an application to the RSGB Awards Manager before the 31st of October. Details of how to do so will remain on the awards section of the RSGB website at rsgb.org/jubilee. As the World Radiocommunication Conference 23 approaches, the studies regarding 23cm and RNSS satellites are working towards conclusions. However, the IARU is not content that all the operational aspects of the amateur service usage of the 1240 to 1300MHz band are being properly considered to develop an acceptable compromise for all concerned parties. You can find some more detail on the areas of concern in the discussion paper posted on the global IARU WRC-23 web pages at iaru-r1.org. On Friday the 23rd of September, a team from hi-impact, based on the Wirral, will be working with Everton Free School on another High Altitude Balloon launch. Launching near Welshpool, at 11 am, you can listen out on 434.250MHz USB and the RTTY transmission will be 300 baud with a 910Hz shift. The callsign will be EVERTONFS. The flight will be SSDV enabled, so there will be pictures being beamed back to earth. The Radio Amateurs of Canada, the national society in Canada, is holding its AGM today at 1600UTC. The AGM will start with A Fireside Chat on the Future of Amateur Radio. Those involved will be Tim Ellam, VE6SH, President of the IARU, Rick Roderick, K5UR, President of the ARRL, Stewart Bryant, G3YSX, the RSGB President and Phil A. McBride, VA3QR, the President of RAC. You can find out more at rac.ca. December is Youngsters On The Air month. This brings an opportunity for individuals, clubs, schools and groups to run an amateur radio station with the aim of getting youngsters active on the air. The RSGB is inviting applications to host the special callsign GB22YOTA, pending Ofcom approval. Activations can be big or small and can be made however you wish. To register your interest please email Jamie, M0SDV at yota.month@rsgb.org.uk with details of the activity you're planning. Please also include your name, organisation and the callsign of the Full licensee who will host the activation. And now for details of rallies and events Please send your rally and event news as soon as possible to radcom@rsgb.org.uk. We'll publicise your event in RadCom, on GB2RS, and online. Weston Super Mare Radio Society's Radio & Electronics Rally takes place on the 25th of September. It will be held at The Campus Community Centre BS24 7DX. On the 2nd of October, the Welsh Radio Rally will be held at Llanwern High School, Farm Road, Newport, NP18 2YE. The doors open at 10 am. There will be a Bring & Buy as well as traders in the hall. For the latest information see gw6gw.co.uk. And now for the Special Event news Paisley Amateur Radio Club will be operating GB0DOD from the Methodist Central Hall, 2 Gauze St, Paisley, PA1 1EP on Saturday the 17th of September. This is for Churches & Chapels on The Air. Members of South Dorset Radio Society will be active as GB0IOW from the Isle of Wight, EU-120, between the 19th and 23rd of September. They will operate SSB and various digital modes on the HF bands. QSL via Logbook of The World, eQSL, or direct to M0XDL. F1IEH will be active as TM72WOW for fifteen days between the 17th of September and the 1st of November. QSL via F1IEH. The station is to commemorate the world aeroplane endurance record in September 1908 set by Wilbur Wright. And now the DX news SV5/LA6OP will be active from Rhodes, EU-001, from the 18th of September to the 9th of October. He will operate mainly FT8 and SSB on the 4 to 40m bands. QSL only via Logbook of the World. SP9FIH will be active as SP9FIH/VP9 from Bermuda, NA-005, from the 23rd of September to the 2nd of October. He will operate SSB, RTTY and FT8 on the 30, 17, 15 and 12m bands. QSL via Club Log's OQRS. Members of the Dateline DX Association will be active as JW0A from Svalbard, EU-026, between the 19th and 26th of September. They will operate CW, SSB and digital modes with three stations as propagation allows. QSL via the operator's instructions. Now the contest news Today, the 18th is the IRTS 70cm Counties Contest that runs from 1300 to 1330UTC. Using SSB and FM, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Irish stations also give their county. Also today, Sunday the 18th is the IRTS 2m Counties Contest that runs from 1330 to 1500UTC. Using SSB and FM, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Irish stations also give their county. The BARTG Sprint PSK63 contest takes place today, the 18th, from 1700 to 2100UTC. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands where contests are permitted, the exchange is a serial number. Today, Sunday the 18th, the 70MHz AFS Contest takes place between 0900 and 1200UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Tuesday the all-mode 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest takes place between 1900 and 2130UTC. The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Thursday it is the Autumn Series Data contest running from 1900 to 2030UTC. Using RTTY and PSK on the 3.5MHz band, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Next weekend the CQ WW DX RTTY runs for 48 hours from 0000UTC on the 24th to 2359UTC on the 25th. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and CQ Zone. For the UK, this is 14. Next Sunday, the 25th, the UK Microwave Group 5.7 and 10GHz contest takes place between 0600 and 1800UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also next Sunday, the Practical Wireless 70MHz contest runs from 1200 to 1600UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA, and G4BAO on Friday 16th September 2022. We had an expected boost to the solar flux index last week, thanks to a returning sunspot group. This, when added to sunspot region 3098, pushed the SFI to 152 on the 11th. The returning group, which has now been updated to active region 3102, isn't quite the threat it was on its last visit, but may still be capable of M-class solar flares. The good news is that an SFI of up to 150+, coupled with better Autumnal propagation, has seen the HF bands come alive at times. Jeff, ZL7/K5WE on Chatham Island has been workable on 40m CW and FT8. He is due to be on air until the 21st of September. Brian, 9J2BO in Zambia, a regular in the Commonwealth Contest, has also been worked on 10 metres CW. It is worth noting that this is a good month for north-south paths, such as the UK to South Africa, and the UK to South America. The beginning of last week was better than the second half, which suffered from an elevated Kp index due to an enhanced solar wind. Also, a high-speed stream from a high-latitude coronal hole on the Sun was forecast to batter the Earth from the 16th onwards. The critical frequency over the UK has fluctuated from less than 5MHz at sunrise to more than 7MHz around lunchtime and later. If you are looking for good inter-G conditions you are better off waiting until the afternoon. Next week, NOAA predicts that the SFI will decline into the 120s. This weekend may also be unsettled on the geomagnetic front as well. Expect the Kp index to rise to four or five, with a characteristic drop in the MUF. Hopefully, conditions will improve after the weekend with the Kp index forecast to drop to around two. As always, things can change very quickly, thanks to solar flares and CMEs, so keep an eye on solarham.com and propquest.co.uk And now the VHF and up propagation news. There should be some useful Tropo about in the coming week, initially over western Britain at first, but gradually extending across most areas as high pressure moves in across the British Isles. The eastern side of the country will start this weekend in a more showery northerly flow down the east coast, so Tropo is unlikely here until we are into next week. Once established it should bring enhanced conditions to most areas and into the near continent, but limited options across the North Sea where the cool showery weather retains control and limits the potential for QSOs to the east. The other modes to have in mind are meteor scatter, particularly in the early mornings. The Sextantids meteor shower is underway but doesn't reach its peak until the 27th. In the disturbed sequence of solar conditions, an aurora is always a possibility so keep an eye on the Kp index; anything above five should be worth checking out. The Moon is at maximum positive declination at the moment, so is visible for long periods. Apogee is the point at which the Moon is furthest from Earth. It takes place on Monday when path losses are at their highest for the month. 144MHz sky noise starts the week at a moderate 500 Kelvin but quickly falls low for the rest of the week. And that's all from the propagation team this week.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1224 Release Date: August 13, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:30:26 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1224 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. National Radio Astronomy Program Designed to Educate Emerging Generation of Scientists Using Amateur Radio 2. Hampton University Scholarships To Provide Opportunities For STEM Students Using Amateur Radio 3. Upcoming Ham Radio Conventions Emphasize Learning and Youth 4. MFJ Enterprises To Celebrate 50th Anniversary 5. Federal Emergency Management Agency Alerts Broadcasters to Vulnerabilities in EAS Devices 6. FCC Says In A Release To Clean Up Orbital Debris First, Then We Can Plan Factories In Space 7. Russian Space Junk Squalls Are Really Gumming Up the Works for SpaceX and StarLink 8. India Student Built Satellite Suffers A Failed Launch Attempt 9. Amateur Radio Club In Pennsylvania Hits Its 10th Anniversary Aboard The Mars Rover 10. DXpedition To Angola Promises Earth-Moon-Earth Communications 11. Amateurs In France Are Told To Share Their Frequencies During The Upcoming Paris Olympics 12. Amateurs Begin A Radio Preparedness Project In Tripura 13. Cancer Recovery Is The Idea Behind This UK Special Event Station 14. Radio Amateurs of Canada Announces Two New Bands For Canadian Amateurs 15. The New ARRL Radio Lab Inspires Innovation In The Ham Shack, and a new Station - W1HQ 16. Hi-Z Antennas will now be manufactured and distributed by DX Engineering 17. An electronics marketer in New York State faces a nearly $700,000 fine from the FCC 18. International Amateur Radio Union Region One Announces Ham Challenge Winners 19. Norway's Telen newspaper spoke to radio amateurs at the emergency response center at Notodden says NRRL 20. The National Science Foundation awarded a grant of $399,211 to Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF for ionospheric studies 21. Radio seized for interfering with police transmissions in Texas 22. Broadcast from LV18 lightship in Harwich 23. RTTY turns 100 24. Ham radio operators reunite families 25. Local news reports covering ham radio 26. TeaPot special event station is on the air 27. YOTA (Youth On The Air) Summer Camp is on the bands 28. Upcoming Conventions and Hamfests Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will be here to explain the different digital memory measurement standards. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, this week, Greg puts aside his tools and climbing belt for part four of his six part series on how to write a successful public service announcement to promote your clubs upcoming hamfest or special event, to the general public on local broadcast radio stations.. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, this week Onno will explain how you can best play the Microphone Gain Game. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Our own amateur radio historian, Bill Continelli, W2XOY returns with another edition of his summer series Amateur Radio History Headlines. This week, Bill takes us above the fold for what made the amateur radio headlines during the first half-of the nineteen sixties... ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including Acast, Deezer, iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castbox.fm, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, OverCast, Player.FM, Pandora, Podcast Gang, Podcast Republic, Podchaser, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! 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NewsWest for Sunday 14th August is the History of Amateur Radio edition. On this day 982 years ago, in 1040, King Duncan I of Scotland was killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth (not murdered in his sleep as in Shakespeare's play). Macbeth succeeded him as King. I'm reliably informed that neither Duncan 1st nor Macbeth were Radio Amateurs. Useless trivia aside, today we're talking Amateur Radio history. Why was the morse code phrase ONOGO broadcast out of Perth? This sequence of morse characters is part of our radio history here in Western Australia. Keep listening for the full story. We wish you well in the Remembrance Day Contest, or a restful recovery if you're listening to the news in the evening, and I hope the RD contest went well for you. Our website is VK6.NET, and you can contact us by email. Our address is newswest at vk6.net. NewsWest can be heard on air, online and on demand. Visit our website, vk6.net, to find out how. ** Now also on YouTube - search for “VK6 NewsWest” ** NewsWest invites programme contributions. You can send yours as email attachments to newswest@vk6.net - our editorial policy is that items should be about Amateur Radio, and relating to, or of interest to, Radio amateurs in Western Australia. Originating in Perth Western Australia, NewsWest is produced by WA Amateur Radio News for listeners on-air, online and on-demand. Whichever way you're listening, whether you're a licensed radio amateur or not, experienced or just a beginner, old or young, thanks for being here and thanks for joining us. Web: http://vk6.net Email: newswest@vk6.net Producer: Bob VK6POP Folge direkt herunterladen

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1223 Release Date: August 6, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:41:55 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1223 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Radio Amateurs of Canada Announces Two New Bands For Canadian Amateurs 2. New Zealand Opens The Six Gigahertz Band For WLAN Use 3. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Grants $99,915 Euros to Finnish Ham Radio Club 4. ARDC Grant Will Allow the Sangamon Valley Radio Club To Sponsor Radio Orienteering Activities 5. FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel Applauds Introduction of Net Neutrality Legislation 6. Nathaniel Frissel, at University of Scranton Awarded NSF Grant For Ionospheric Research 7. New ARRL Radio Lab Station, W1HQ, Inspires Innovation in the Ham Shack 8. Hams Radio Operators Support American Red Cross in Kentucky Flood Response 9. Young Amateurs Radio Club to Host Inaugural Special Event 10. ARRL New England Division Helps FEMA Test Message Distribution 11. Hi-Z Antennas Will Now Be Manufactured By DX Engineering 12. Polish Amateur Radio Union Invites All Amateurs To Participate In Special Event 13. Amateur Radio Provided Communications For The Ironman Lake Placid Triathlon 14. Electronics Marketer In New York Faces Nearly $700,000 Fine From The FCC 15. International Friendship Is Encouraged By The ALARA Contest 16. Worlds Largest Teapot Brews Up A Unique Special Event Station 17. In-Person Hamfest In India Finally Returns After Three Years Of Being Postponed 18. Phoenix UK and DV Scotland Have Merged Their DMR Networks 19. Satellite Built By Indian Schoolgirls To Launch With 75 Experiments 20. A Cross Country Ski Trip Is Planned In The Victorian Alps To Warm Up The Bands 21. Hams on Summits On The Air Event Help Prevent Major Forest Fire 22. Denmark's Regulator EDR notes lack of availability of training 23. Earth just had its shortest day in decades, and it seems to be spinning faster 24. Spaceweather and the Propagation Horoscope 25. Austria: International Youth Day On The Air is out of the ordinary 26. Underwater eruption cutting off communications in Tonga proved continuing importance of shortwave radio 27. Radio broadcasting still crucial in Sarawak Borneo 28. Upcoming conventions and HamFest listing 29. QST now offering a column for radio clubs 30. ARRL Field Day 2022 contacts rise to over 1.2 million 31. Russia posturing to pull out of the International Space Station Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT. Leo returns after catching Covid on his vacation, and will spend his segment this week talking about the past and future of technology. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, puts aside his tools and climbing belt for Part Three of his series on composing a successful Public Service Announcement to promote your upcoming hamfest or special club event, and getting it on the air on local broadcast outlets. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, wants to know, what's with the repeater offset again? * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * The latest from Parks On The Air and Summits On The Air (June 2022 Report) with Vance Martin, N3VEM * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. returns with another edition of his summer series, Amateur Radio History Headlines. This week Bill takes us on a tour of the headlines above the fold during the years 1958 thru 1962. ​ ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including Acast, Deezer, iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castbox.fm, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, OverCast, Player.FM, Pandora, Podcast Gang, Podcast Republic, Podchaser, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1209 Release Date: April 30, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:35:09 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1209 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. AMSAT Hamvention Call For Volunteers Update 2. Hams In Bosnia-Herzegovina Bring A Fast Response To Recent Earthquake 3. ARRL Youth Licensing Grant Program Goes Into Effect 4. Federal Communications Commission Seeks Public Input On Improving Receiver Rejection of RFI 5. New Colorado Section Manager Takes Office On July 1st 6. One Family Celebrates Generations of Amateur Radio Operators 7. Federal Communications Commission Sites Manifacturers Of Hazardous Drone Transmitters 8. United States Amateur Radio Direction Finding Championships Results 9. Friedrichshafen, Germany To Host The 45th International Amateur Radio Exhibition 10. United States Government Will Study HF Propagation Using Satellite Based Sensors 11. Amateurs In Maine Attend Training Seminar To Assist Disaster First Responders 12. Webinar Scheduled For The ARRL Foundation Club Grant Program 13. Radio Society of Great Britian Is Seeking A New RadCom News Editor 14. FCC - Universal Licensing System Shuts Down For The Second Time In As Many Weeks 15. Amateurs In The U-S Prepare For Armed Forces Cross-Band Exerices On Armed Forces Day 16. Astronaut Aboard The Space Station Has Successful Amateur Radio School Contact 17. The 2022 Virtual Amateur Radio Workshop from the National Hurricane Conference Has Been Posted YouTube 18. Orlando HamCation Reports Attendance Numbers 19. Hams In Bosnia-Herzegovina Bring A Fast Repsose To Recent Earthquake 20. FCC Hiring for Electronics Engineering 21. Radio Amateurs to Participate in MARS Interoperability Exercise in May 22. Caister Marconi radio station contacts more than 160 amateurs in 25 countries to mark Marconi Day at lifeboat station 23. Online UK Full ham radio licence course starts May 3 24. The two most powerful antennas of Grigoriopol megawatt transmitter in Transnistria have been destroyed 25. Ham radio and AMSAT-UK at Electromagnetic Field Camp event takes place June 2-5 26. Upcoming contest and HamFest news. Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will answer the question, are RAM DISKS still a thing? And should they be used with modern computers. Leo will also explain Public Key Cryptography. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, covers everything you need to know to install and maintain your tower and antenna installation for your station. This week, Greg will talk about the proper climbing belts to use while working on your tower antenna system. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will explain "The Art Of Troubleshooting The Digital World" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * The latest from Parks On The Air and Summits On The Air (March Report) with Vance Martin, N3VEM * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill continues his mini-series on amateur radios Fallen Flags. This week Bill looks at a little radio company that got its start in New York City, the Hammarlund Radio Corporation. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! 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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1207 Release Date: April 16, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:28:55 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1207 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Amateur Radio Helps Rescue Injured California Outdoorsman 2. ARRL EXPO at Dayton Hamvention - An Overview 3. Jose Castillo, N4BAA, Named CQ Worked All Zones Award Manager Succeeds John Bergman, KC5LK 4. Amateurs Around The World Are Preparing For World Amateur Radio Day 5. Reaffirming Amateur Radios Connection To History, Ham Radio Will Celebrate International Marconi Day 6. CQ Magazine DX Marathon Is Looking For A New Manager 7. World's Largest Radio Telescope To Be Guided By New Software Project 8. Youngsters On The Air Summer Camp 2022 To Take Place In Croatia IARU Region One 9. Ham Radio Veteran Shares A Special Skill Set 10. Youth On The Air Seeks A Host Venue For The 2023 Summer Camp 11. ESA/European Space Agency Statement Regarding Cooperation With Russia 12. Spratlys Get Even More Dangerous for Hams 13. Paper Shortage Hits Amateur Radio Magazines Around The World 14. Radio Amateurs of Canada Announce Membership Fee Increase Due To Inflation 15. ARRL Announces New Employment Opportunities Now Available At League Headquarters 16. Amateur Operator In Pennsylvania Faces Criminal Charges 17. Finland Updates Use Of Encryption By Radio Amateurs 18. Sweden Imposes Fees For Amateurs Running More Than 200 Watts 19. RSGB's Commonwealth Games SES Special Event Station Showcasing Amateur Radio Looking For Volunteers 20. Radio amateur teacher Chris Murphy KD2MRV, uses ham radio balloons to encourage STEM learning in Gloversville, NY 21. Knox, TN Radio amateur, Tim Berry WB4GBI, determined to restore radio tower after storm 22. International Amateur Radio Union Region One respond to the Executive Committee regarding its Solar Energy Strategy 23. Irish group building an audio archive of pirate radio broadcasting 24. Strange slow pulse signals in 11 meter broadcast band in Ireland Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will discuss how to repurpose that old computer in your closet with free open source software, and will discuss what we all do with our glass "Fondle Slabs". * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP,takes a look at a phenomenon that tends to happen each spring in the mid-west called "Dead Band Syndrome" * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will take a look at what you do after you discover the chaos, and finally decide it's time to build the ideal radio shack. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * The latest from Parks On The Air and Summits On The Air March 2022 Report, with Vance Martin, N3VEM * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill begins his look at some of amateur radios "Fallen Flags", with a close up look at the National Radio Company. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. 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GB2RS News Sunday the 17th of April 2022 The news headlines: RSGB AGM to be live-streamed Pop Up YOTA net today New EMF video The RSGB AGM is being live-streamed on Saturday at 12 noon. You can still submit a question for the RSGB Board to answer during the event, but you will need to do so before 9 am on Wednesday the 20th of April. Voting in the elections closes at 9 am on Thursday the 21st of April. The Society encourages all RSGB Members to use their vote. Full details of the event can be found on the RSGB website at rsgb.org/agm. A special Pop Up Youngsters On The Air net will be on the air today, Easter Sunday, at 1400UTC. This Pop-Up net is aimed exclusively at youngsters under the age of 25 and encourages them to call in and have a QSO with fellow youngsters on the air. The net controller for the first hour will be Declan, 2W0KYH who is aged 13. The 2nd hour is with Liam, M7LCB. The net is hosted by the FreeSTAR Amateur Radio network, which is a multi-node system where various digital radio modes are accessible including DMR, D-Star, Fusion C4FM and so on. For full connection details please visit freestar.network or email Oscar@freestar.network. The RSGB has just released a short video outlining the new EMF regulations and the help and tools the Society provides for radio amateurs. There is a wealth of information and guidance on the RSGB website and the Society hopes that this video will signpost that in a new way. The video is in the ‘Did you know?' playlist on the RSGB YouTube channel at youtube.com/theRSGB. The IARU Region Political Relations Committee, in conjunction with the Region's EMC Committee, has submitted a paper to a recent European Commission Call for Evidence with respect to Solar Energy Strategy. Solar energy systems, which include Solar PV, are a progressive technology whose use is to be encouraged. However, there are certain caveats to be noted in deployment and ongoing use. The IARU concerns are not with solar technology, but with the potential noise pollution from so-called optimisers. The paper that was submitted detailed elements of the ongoing research and monitoring by the EMC Committee in this area. The paper is available on the IARU Region 1 website at iaru-r1.org. As part of the Commonwealth Games activities, RSGB Special Event Stations will be activated from the four UK Home Nations and three Crown Dependencies. The callsigns will take the format of GB22G followed by the Regional Locator, for example, GB22GE, GB22GI or GB22GD. RSGB affiliated clubs and individual RSGB Members who are Full licensees will be able to book slots to activate a callsign themselves or to supervise operation by others. Further details will be coming soon. Radio Amateurs of Canada is supporting World Amateur Radio Day on the 18th of April by encouraging amateurs to get on the air and contact as many Canadian stations as possible. RAC official stations will operate across Canada from 0000Z to 2359UTC on the 18th. Look out for these special event stations with callsigns ending in RAC. Those contacting one or more of these stations will be eligible for a special commemorative certificate. Full details are on their website at rac.ca. The RSGB will be running a special event station at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, starting on the 28th of July. The callsign will be GB22HQ. If you'd like to help operate the station during the Games and talk to visitors about amateur radio, please contact RSGB Region 5 Representative Neil Yorke, M0NKE at rr5@rsgb.org.uk. Due to the location of the station, operators will only be able to access the Games by train. The RSGB and ARRL have been celebrating the centenary of the Transatlantic Tests. The Society has just released a video that highlights the fantastic exhibition put on by the National Heritage Centre in Saltcoats, the 1921 message re-enactment by the Kilmarnock and Loudoun Amateur Radio Club and also the 160m Transatlantic QSO Party. You'll find the video on the RSGB YouTube channel at youtube.com/theRSGB And now for details of rallies and events Please send your rally and event news as soon as possible to radcom@rsgb.org.uk. We'll publicise your event in RadCom, on GB2RS, and online. The Cambridge Repeater Group Rally takes place on the 24th of April. The venue is Foxton Village Hall, Hardman Road, Foxton, Cambridge CB22 6RN. Doors open at 9.30 am and admission is £3. There will be a talk in station, trade stands, car boot area and a Bring & Buy. Catering is available on site. More at cambridgerepeaters.net. Also on the 24th is the Northern Amateur Radio Societies Association Exhibition, also known as the Blackpool Rally. It will be held at the Norbreck Castle Exhibition Centre, Blackpool FY2 9AA. More details at narsa.org.uk. The Andover Radio Club Spring Boot Sale is due to take place on the 24th at Wildhern Village Hall, SP11 0JE. It is open at 10 am and is organised by the Andover Radio Amateur Club. Details at arac.org.uk. Now the DX news Braco, E77DX will be active holiday style as 8Q7DX from the Maldives, AS-013, until the 27th of April. He plans to operate on the 10 to 80m bands. QSL via Logbook of The World and E73Y. Michael, DF8AN will be touring the Caribbean until early May. He will be active from Martinique as FM/DF8AN until the 19th of April and again on the 1st and 2nd of May. He will operate as J79MN from Dominica between the 19th and 24th of April. Between the 24th of April and the 1st of May, he will operate from St. Lucia. He will operate mainly CW and digital modes on all bands, including the 6m band. QSLs via DF8AN, direct or via the bureau. Now the Special Event news Look out for GB1BB today from about 5 pm to 7 pm local time around 7.170MHz or 3.770MHz as well as 2m FM simplex and via GB3IW. Operators from the Isle of Wight Radio Society will be on the Bramble Bank in mid-Solent for the few minutes that it is exposed by this weekend's extreme Spring tide. After the event, the club will QSL direct. QSL certificates will show Gold, Silver, or Bronze Awards. Gold for confirmed contacts with GB1BB on HF, VHF, and UHF; Silver for confirmed contacts on any two of those; and Bronze for a confirmed contact on any one band. Details on iowrs.org. On the 23rd of April Harlow & District Amateur Radio Society will be operating GB0MGY for International Marconi Day. With the kind permission of the National Trust, Weston super Mare Radio Society will be operating GB0IMD from the Old Fort on Brean Down on the 23rd of April, as part of the International Marconi Day celebrations. Flight Refuelling ARS will be operating from the club station using GB2FRA to celebrate the club's 40th anniversary. It is intended that the callsign will be used on all the bands and modes that are available from the club shack including 10GHz EME. Operations will run throughout April. Medway Amateur Receiving and Transmitting Society will operate GB5MW between the 3rd and 30th of April to celebrate the society's centenary year. QSL via eQSL. Now the contest news On Monday the IRTS 70cm Counties Contest runs between 1300 and 1330UTC. It is followed by the IRTS 2m Counties Contest from 1330 to 1500UTC. Both use FM and SSB and the exchange is signal report and serial number. Please note that Irish stations will also send their county. On Tuesday the 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Wednesday, the SSB leg of the 80m Club Championship runs between 1900 and 2030UTC. The exchange is a signal report and serial number. Thursday sees the 70MHz UK Activity Contest run from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The SP DX RTTY contest runs from 1200UTC on the 23rd to 1200UTC on the 24th. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz bands where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number with polish stations also sending their Region code. Running from 1900UTC on the 23rd to 2130UTC on the 24th, the First MGM contest uses the 50 and 144MHz bands. The exchange is your report and 4-character locator. Next Sunday, the 24th, the BARTG Sprint 75 Contest runs from 1700 to 2100UTC. Using 75 baud RTTY on the 3.5 to 28MHz bands where contests are permitted, the exchange is the serial number. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA, and G4BAO on Thursday the 14th of April 2022. We had a week with declining solar flux index numbers, but with the ever-present threat of coronal mass ejections. The SFI declined from 101 on Sunday to 96 on Wednesday with the possibility of further falls as the week goes on. A solar filament located near the centre disk of the Sun erupted early Monday morning generating a faint, halo coronal mass ejection (CME) that appeared to be squarely Earth-directed. A moderate (G2) geomagnetic storm watch was added for the 14th and skywatchers at middle to high latitudes were also put on alert for aurora. Meanwhile, the quieter geomagnetic conditions earlier in the week saw 10 metres open up to some good DX. Laurie, G3UML reports a long path opening to Australia on 20m CW from 0730 to 0800UTC. He worked two VK2s and a VK3 and listened to VK5QD who was very loud. Next week NOAA predicts that the SFI may climb again, perhaps into the range of 100 to 110. Geomagnetic conditions are predicted to be generally quiet, but with the ever-present risk of CMEs pushing the Kp index up to perhaps four or five at times. A pair of coronal holes became Earth facing on Thursday as well, which may bring unsettled conditions again this weekend. If the Kp index stays low we can expect MUFs to be near seasonal norms, perhaps with openings up to 21 and even 28MHz at times. Look out for occasional early-season Sporadic-E openings as well, which could bring short-skip openings into Europe on 10 metres. And now the VHF and up propagation news The high pressure over the North Sea and Scandinavia will decline slowly allowing a new area of low pressure over the nearby Atlantic to drift east into southern Britain during the Easter weekend. This will mean that any Tropo benefits, particularly over the Irish Sea and the North Sea will decline during the weekend. The new low will bring areas of showery rain across the country with a chance of rain scatter propagation. This is likely to be a pattern for much of the following week with low pressure over southern areas and occasionally expanding bands of rain farther north. The solar activity has continued to provide aurora options, so again worthwhile checking the clusters and Kp index for early signs of auroral activity. It is also a given that random meteor scatter is always available, especially for those who like to be up early in the morning! The main mode to keep a watch out for during the coming week is Sporadic-E, which is just beginning to make an appearance on 10m and even higher bands using digital modes. Jet streams are important as potential sources of the atmospheric gravity waves that can contribute to Es. You should look to the jet stream 300hectopascal or hPa upper air charts to see where they are located. Try paths that cross them, especially where they cross mountain ranges like the Alps or Pyrenees. Note a hectopascal equals a millibar. The Propquest.co.uk website has a set of four 300hPa charts for the current day and from the beginning of May will also contain a daily blog highlighting that day's prospects. The Winter minimum of meteor show activity is coming to an end. This week the small daytime April Piscids shower starts on the 20th, and peaks two days later at 2200UTC. This also coincides with the peak of the larger, and currently active Lyrids shower also on the 22nd but earlier at 1300 UTC. With a ZHR of around 18, it should produce some good reflections. Moon perigee is on Tuesday so path losses are at their lowest. Moon declination is negative again and reaches minimum on Thursday so Moon windows will be short and peak Moon elevation low. 144MHz sky noise is high, peaking at over 3000K on Thursday so combined with the low elevations a poor week for especially VHF EME. And that's all from the propagation team this week.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1206 Release Date: April 9, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:25:53 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1206 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Paper Shortage Hits Amateur Radio Magazines Around The World 2. Radio Amateurs of Canada Announce Membership Fee Increase Due To Inflation 3. AMSAT Issues Call For Volunteers To Assist At Dayton Hamvention 4. Shane Siggins, G6WBS, Achieves Summits On The Air Mountain Goat Status 5. World Amateur Radio Day Is Monday April 18th 6. ARRL Announces New Employment Opportunities Now Available At League Headquarters 7. US Army NETCOM Will Be Utilizing 60 Meters For Amateur Radio Outreach 8. Amateur Operator In Pennsylvania Faces Criminal Charges 9. Amateurs Invited To Attend Virtual Workshop On Hurricane Preparedness 10. Licensing Delays Are Testing The Patience Of New Amateurs In Brazil 11. Amateurs In India Assist In Reuniting A Missing Person With His Family 12. Update: French Radio Amateur Sentenced For On The Air Threats 13. Finland Updates Use Of Encryption By Radio Amateurs 14. Yasme Excellence Awards Presented 15. Belgium's National Society UBA Bans Russian and Belarus Radio Amateurs 16. New FCC Application Fee Will Not Apply To Amateur Radio License Upgrades 17. WTWW Shortwave Station Is Broadcasting Music and Messages To The People Of The Ukraine and Russia 18. A Few Amateurs In The United Kingdom Now Have Access To The 8 Meter (40mHz) Band 19. Amateur Radio Software Award Is Presented 20. Radio Amateurs In Morocco Celebrate The 100th Anniversary of Prince Albert With A Special Event Station 21. The International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend Will Celebrate its 25th Anniversary in 2022 22. Radio Amateurs of Canada Will Issue Special Callsigns For Use During Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee 23. Amateur radio friends reconstruct original Falklands invasion contact at BBC Headquarters 24. Amateur radio led to teenager embarking on electronics career 25. Wind-up tape measure portable antenna for amateur radio 26. Solar cycle Update: The Gap Between Cycle 24 and 25 Is Growing 27. Youngsters On The Air Summer Camp in Croatia Goes Forward Despite Covid Variants 28. The Bathtub Morse Key Video Now On YouTube Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, Leo talks about how much power it takes to perform a single google search, and he will update us on the state of the current chip shortage. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News *Tower Climbing and Antenna master, Greg Stoddard, KF9MP, presents the final installment of his six part series explaining how to get your club meeting or ham fest promoted on local broadcast radio by correctly composing and submitting a Public Service Announcement. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, says that, at first, there was chaos. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * The latest from Parks On The Air and Summits On The Air (February Report) with Vance Martin, N3VEM * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to World Radio Conference 1979 where amateurs got new bands, and takes a look at the proposed SSB 10 and a half meter band, and he will have other amateur news from 1980. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. 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In this episode, Martin Butler (M1MRB) is joined by Chris Howard (M0TCH), Martin Rothwell (M0SGL), Frank Howell (K4FMH) and Bill Bares (WC3B) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and in the episode's feature is a discussion with Phil McBride VA3QR, new President of Radio Amateurs of Canada. We would like to thank David Strachan (2M0WHX) and our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate FAA Update to 5G and FAA ARRL Surveying Field Day Participants New EMC Rules for Electronic Devices to Benefit Radio Hams Physics Professor Awarded NSF Grant for Workshop Comreg Amateur Radio License Negotiations RSGB Construction Competition ARRL Foundation to Create club grants program Spanish Radio Amateurs can Continue using 2.4 GHz

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1193 Release Date: January 8, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:16:09 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1193 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Radio Amateurs of Canada Announces New President 2. ARRL Welcomes New Director of Emergency Management 3. Dick Fijlstra, PA0DFN, Is 2022 Carole Perry Educator Of The Year 4. New Technician Question Pool Released, Effective July 1st, 2022. 5. Comments Invited On New Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument Management Plan 6. ARRL Foundation Grants First-Year Funding for ARISS *STAR* Keith Pugh Initiative 7. WSJT Development Group Releases Bug Fix WSJT-X version 2.5.4 8. CAMSAT XW-3 (CAS-9) Is Designated Hope-OSCAR-113 (HO-113) 9. The Volunteer Monitor Program Report For December 2021 10. ARRL Surveying Field Day Participants 11. ARRL to Oppose Forest Service Administrative Fees for Amateur Facilities 12. Youth on the Air Camp to Return in June 13. Colorado Amateurs Assist Communications During Wildfires 14. Amateurs In Germany Re-think Their Disaster Communications Efforts By Building Mesh Wi-Fi Networks 15. Navy Veteran/Amateur Prepares A Camping Trailer For Future Disaster Response 16. Netherlands Airport Traffic Control Interference Traced To FM Broadcaster 17. MicroSoft Proposes Artificial Intelligence To Aid Radio Transcription For Military Use 18. BBC's Centenary celebrated by BBC Radio/Amateur special event amateur radio station GB100BBC 19. HamSCI invites abstracts for its 2022 Workshop on Space Weather 20. Icelandic radio ham made over 25,000 contacts in 2021 21. Ofcom: Radio regulation enforcement 22. A ham radio antenna that fits almost anywhere Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, compares todays modern laptops to early mainframe computers, and will tell us how the nations wireless carriers are moving forward with 5G deployment this week, ignoring the FCC and FAA directives about 5G's potential to interfere with airline altimeters. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about performing tower work, with and for other amateurs. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will present a segment he calls "Leaving The Hobby". * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill looks back to the 1970's and the college war resistance network that was taking place on amateur radio. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including Acast, Deezer, iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castbox.fm, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, OverCast, Player.FM, Pandora, Podcast Gang, Podcast Republic, Podchaser, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our daily feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

Vince d'Eon, VE6LK, has taken hold of the many amateur radio opportunities on HF SSB, VHF/UHF mobile operation, repeater building and maintenance, and supporting events with his Calgary based amateur radio club.  Vince is a regular contributor to the bi-weekly Ham Radio Workbench Podcast and made a presentation at the last QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo on Disaster Communications and Leadership Imperatives for Radio Amateurs.  VE6LK is my QSO Today.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1185 Release Date: November 13, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Running Time: 1:27:59 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1185 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. October 2021 Volunteer Monitor Program Report 2. Solo DXpeditioner Says Operating from Crozet is Limited by Nature 3. AMSAT-NA Elects Officers, Discusses Ongoing and Future Satellite Projects 4. Norway Looking To Introduce Entry Level Ham Radio License 5. It Looks Like The Dayton HamVention Will Happen In 2022 6. Japanese Amateurs Create Their Own Hamfest / Slovenia's Worldwide Flora & Fauna Celebrations On Air 7. New 2x1 Australian Callsigns Make Their Debut During The CQWW SSB Contest 8. European Digital Amateur Television Magazine Ceases Publication 9. (Re)Discover Radio At The ARRL National Convention and Orlando HamCation February 10-13, 2022 10. The Wireless Institute of Australia Meets With The Australian Communications and Media Authority 11. Space Physics Professor Seeks Radio Amateurs' Help in Making Space Physics Data Audible 12. Radio Amateurs in Brazil Help with Rescue Operation 13. Dominican Radio Club Participates In Successful Earthquake Evacuation Simulation 14. Ten Tips for New Contesters and Those with Modest Stations 15. International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 Monitoring System Newsletter Summary 16. A quick look at the Beverage Antenna now on the ARRL Eclectic Tech podcast 17. South African Radio League slow speed CW event is coming up 18. Ham radio operators participate in California earthquake response drills 19. An update on Solar Cycle 25 20. A shortwave broadcaster in Germany accidently fires up on the forty meter band 21. The International Amateur Radio Union has a new proposed digital mode band plan. Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, asks the questions, are you afraid of technology, and will talk about a recent F-C-C ruling on the demise of Cable Card Technology... * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about climbing your tower and taking a turn to the left or right, or how to safely work on tower sidearms. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, asks 'What have you been up to in amateur radio lately?' * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to November 22, 1967, the date that the FCC institute incentive punishment...I mean, incentive licensing. The year that hams lost operating frequencies and pitted amateurs against the FCC and the ARRL. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including Acast, Deezer, iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castbox.fm, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, OverCast, Player.FM, Pandora, Podcast Gang, Podcast Republic, Podchaser, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our daily feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1178 Release Date: September 25, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:35:08 Download Podcast here: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1178 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. IARU Region 1 Monitoring System Says Radio France International Splatter Untenable 2. Home Computing Pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair Passes 3. Radio Amateurs on Standby Following La Palma Volcanic Eruption 4. The 2021 ARRL Simulated Emergency Test, SET Is Just Ahead 5. Clear Frequencies Requested For Possible Nicaragua Earthquake Traffic 6. Registration Opens For USA Amateur Radio Direction Finding Championships 7. ARRL And RSGB Announce Joint Events To Celebrate Centenary Of Ham Radio Transatlantic Success - Part One 8. ARRL And RSGB Announce Joint Events To Celebrate Centenary Of Ham Radio Transatlantic Success - Part Two 9. Open Source Amateur Satellite Work Not Subject To Export Administration Regulation 10. Upcoming ARRL Learning Network Webinars 11. International Amateur Radio Union Region 3 Considers Significant Expansion Of HF Digital Segments 12. Single Side Band Was Slow To Catch On As A Ham Radio Mode 13. Children At Children's National Hospital In Washington Contact The Space Station 14. Night Sky Pollution Is Blamed On Satellite Constellations Research Claims 15. Hamfests Are occurring Again, But With Cautions In Place 16. National Hurricane Conference Video Is Now Available On YouTube 17. International Amateur Radio Union Region One Honors Amateurs Contributions 18. Locally Owned Radio Shack In Smyrna Is Forced To Close 19. 39th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium 20. Radio amateurs on the island of Bonaire set up a new club 21. Special Event station celebrates 60th Anniversary of The Antarctic Treaty 22. International DX Association (INDEXA) will support the 3Y0J DXpedition to Bouvet Island 23. PACIFICON 2021 Pacific Division Convention is announced 24. Central Arizona DX Association will activate K7UGA former callsign of Senator Barry Goldwater 25. A brief history of amateur radio foxhunting and upcoming events 26. Glow Worm is a new web attack making the rounds. 27. The best and the worse ways to learn morse code 28. Superheterodyne receiver design retrospective video now available Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, talks about bringing back forums, Leo also will tell us how Google is in the process of shutting down it's wide area ISP experiment called Project Loon. And, he will tell us about a railroad system in Northern China that is running on the now expired Adobe Flash. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about The Sudden Stop, continued. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, tells us why we need more glue in our hobby. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes a look at the 1927 Radio Act which formally ends anarchy on the AM Broadcast Bands, and formalizes amateur radio. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including Acast, Deezer, iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castbox.fm, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, OverCast, Player.FM, Pandora, Podcast Gang, Podcast Republic, Podchaser, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our daily feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1174 Release Date: August 28, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN. Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:39:38 Download Podcast here: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1174 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. Three Way Races For Director Set In New England And Roanoke Divisions 2. Huntsville Hamfest Hosts 2021 ARRL Southeastern Division Convention 3. Registration Now Open for AMSAT Space Symposium 4. Grace And Henri Keep Amateur Radio Weather Spotters Busy 5. Upcoming ARRL Learning Network Webinars 6. Newspaper Article Boosts Interest In Net Aimed At Visually Impaired, Disabled Amateurs 7. Radio Amateurs of Canada Welcomes New Quebec Section Manager 8. Florida Amateur In RFI Dispute Over Suspected Interference To A Neighbors Insulin Pump 9. Replacing The Arecibo Telescope With A Duplicate Proposed To Be Built On The Far Side Of The Moon 10. Antenna Array Delivers Galaxies In High Definition 11. New York City Special Event Station Marks The 20th Anniversary Of 9/11 12. With Summits Off Limits In New Zealand, Hams Take To BYOTA, Back Yards On The Air 13. The Australian Communications and Media Authority Seeks Amateurs Input On 2x1 Callsigns/Assigned Beacons 14. Radio Amateurs Prepare for Potentially Catastrophic Storm this Weekend 15. Hurricane Watch Net Calls For "All Hands On Deck" On Sunday 16. Short News Briefs 17. Historic Maine Sailing Vessel With Large Amateur Radio History Celebrates Its 100th Year 18. AmperNet Digital Amateur Radio Communications 19. Amateur Operator Sends His Daughter Off To College With A Self Constructed 100 Foot Rocket Mock-Up 20. RTE Is Now On 252 Kilohertz Longwave 21. The FCC Warns Consumers About Fraudulent Website On Subsidized Broadband 22. AMSAT RAD-FX-SAT 2 Suddenly Comes To Life Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about why you can't trust cellular coverage maps, and also why you should hardwire your network when you are renovating, or building a new home. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about making antenna mounts from easily available scraps. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will answer the question What is In A Unit? * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to 1912 where amateurs entered the summer with a new radio act in place, and a new licensing structure. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including Acast, Deezer, iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castbox.fm, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, OverCast, Player.FM, Pandora, Podcast Gang, Podcast Republic, Podchaser, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our daily feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space!

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1162 Release Date: June 5, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Fred Fittee, NF2F, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:29:15 Download Podcast here: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1162 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. IARU Continues World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 Preparations 2. Next Virtual Ham Events Include SEA-PAC and QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo 3. Interactive LightCube Satellite Set To Launch In Late 2022 4. Radio Amateurs Of Canada Invites Participation In The RAC Canada Day Contest 5. Netherlands Repeaters And Beacons To Be Hit With 79 Euro Charge - New 8 Meter Beacon 6. IARU Regions Adopt Standard Branding, Region 2 Mulls Future Conference Meetings 7. Upcoming ARRL Learning Network Webinars 8. FCC Seeks Comment On Any Potential Impacts Of The Global Semiconductor Shortage On Communications 9. East Bay Section Manager Jim Siemons, W6LK, Stepping Down; Mike Patterson, N6JGA, Appointed 10. Radio Amateurs' Email Addresses Will Continue to Be Kept Private, FCC Says 11. FCC Paves The Way To Consider New Low Power FM Licenses 12. Amateur Operators In India Coordinate Crematory Logistics Due To Massive Spike Of Covid Cases 13. International Space Station Is Getting Its First European Female Commander 14. New York State Bannerman Island To Be Activated 15. Authorities In Germany Clamp Down On A Solar Panel Manufacturer 16. June 2021 Eclipse Festival Seeks Ham Participants 17. New Communications Tower In Turkey Is Now The Tallest In Europe 18. Irish Amateurs Asked To Check In To The Irishfest In LaCrosse Wisconsin 19. Brazil Regulator Anatel Looks Into On Line Amateur Radio Exams To Relieve Back Log 20. IARU Attends ITU Meeting On Wireless Power Transfer Interference To Amateur Radio 21. The Latest Edition Of The Geo Newsletter Has Many Articles Of Interest For Amateur 22. The Irish CW Field Day Is This Weekend June 5/6 2021 23. Two New Countries Have Joined The International Amateur Radio Union 24. Mauritius Island Has Launched Its First Amateur Radio Satellite 25. HamSci invites Amateurs To Participate In Upcoming Eclipse By Monitoring Time Standard Stations Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about your domain privacy with generic data on a who is search, and will talk about Amazons upcoming activation of its new Mesh network called Sidewalk. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, this week begins a new four part series on how to promote your radio clubs upcoming meeting or hamfest on local broadcast radio though the successful writing of a public service announcement, and getting it on the air. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will help to bring a sense of order into your connector chaos. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes a more in depth look at the state of amateur radio in the early to mid-fifties. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including Acast, Deezer, iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castbox.fm, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, OverCast, Player.FM, Pandora, Podcast Gang, Podcast Republic, Podchaser, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our daily feed on Twitter! Thanks for FortifiedNet.net for the server space!

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1161 Release Date: May 29, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:31:16 Download Podcast here: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1161 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. As China Spacecraft Lands On Mars, Ham Notes Lander and Rover Separation 2. Amateur Radio Gearing Up For Another Active Atlantic Hurricane Season 3. CQ Announces 2021 Hall of Fame Inductees 4. June 2021 Eclipse Festival Seeks Ham Participants 5. East Bay SM Jim Siemons, W6LK, Stepping Down; Mike Patterson, N6JGA, Appointed 6. A CubeSat That produces Visible Light On The Ground To Be Launched In NASA Initiative 7. FCC Seeks Comment on Potential Impact of Global Semiconductor Shortage 8. Radio Amateur’s Vintage Home Movie Film Sheds Light on Hindenburg Disaster 9. Radio Amateurs of Canada Invites Participation in the RAC Canada Day Contest 10. Upcoming Listing of ARRL Learning Network Webinars 11. Amateur Radio News Shorts 12. Researcher and Past Arecibo Observatory Director Gordon Pettengill, W1OUN, SK 13. The San Francisco Amateur Radio Club Will Activate A Sailboat 14. First-Time Exam Applicants Must Obtain FCC Registration Number before Taking Exam 15. Spring ARRL Section Manager Election Results Announced 16. High Frequency Over The Horizon Radars Continue To Be Troublemakers, IARU Region One Monitoring Service Says 17. Indiana Amateurs Assist In Search For Missing Young Boy 18 .Bletchley Park Is Reopening 19. European Space Agency Is Having A Contest To Name Its New Spacecraft 20. The sun recently produced a massive solar flare and Coronal Mass Ejection 21. The German radio regulator has targeted certain solar panel electronics in interference issue 22. A major DXpedition is planned to Svalbard Island Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will compare the differences between analog and digital audio at a basic level, and will tell us how we love our smart phones, and how they are slowly becoming an enemy. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about what he perceives as a annual condition during the spring of each year called "Dead Band Syndrome." * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us how you can stream a dozen repeaters with an RTL-SDR dongle. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill Bill looks back to the days of Control Of Electromagnetic Radiation, better known as Conelrad. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including Acast, Deezer, iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castbox.fm, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, OverCast, Player.FM, Pandora, Podcast Gang, Podcast Republic, Podchaser, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our daily feed on Twitter! Thanks for FortifiedNet.net for the server space!

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1155 Release Date: April 17, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F,Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:35:06 Download Podcast here: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1155 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. FCC: Updated Radio Frequency Exposure Rules Become Effective On May 3rd 2. FCC Encourages Public To Use Its Speed Test App To Measure Their Broadband Speeds 3. SpaceX Encrypts Falcon 9 Telemetry After Amateur Radio Operators Download Data 4. Intrepid DX Group Joins Forces With LA7GIA In Bouvet Island Attempt 5. Saint Vincent Radio Amateurs on Alert During Volcano Emergency 6. The Radio Amateurs of Canada Announces Get On The Air On World Amateur Radio Day Event 7. University of Alaska Receives $9.3 Million Dollar Grant For HAARP HF Research 8. After 27 Years The Japan Amateur Radio League Is Retuning To Growth 9. Ulrich Rohde, N1UL, Awarded Germany’s Cross Of Merit 10. HamCensus.Org - Amateur Radio Group Wants To Count All Amateurs Worldwide. An Amateur Radio Census 11. Archive of Marconi Papers and Correspondence Acquired by California Museum 12. Upcoming - ARRL Learning Network Webinars 13. Repeater Network In Tennessee Comes To The Aid Of A Hiker 14. Marconi Day Historic Sites Are Being Activated 15. Comm Academy's Virtual Conference Was A Big Success 16. Volunteer Monitor Program Issues March 2021 Report 17. DARC in Germany Awards Federal Cross Of Merit To DJ2LR 18. How To Get More Youth Involved In Amateur Radio Thru Youth Of The Air - New YOTA Contests Coming Up 19. Radio Direction Finding Has Now Become A Recognized Sport 20. High Frequency Over The Horizon Radar Transmissions Are Now Too Numerous To Count 21. WSPR Provides A New Method To Locate Downed Aircraft / Geocaching The Atmosphere 22. Belgium Regulator BIPT Resolves To Resume In Person Amateur Radio Exams On April 26th 23. The BBC Announces It Is Shutting Down More Medium Wave Transmitters In Favor Of Digital Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, Leo will talk about the current chip shortages we are experiencing, and why Apple Messaging has never been ported to the Android platform. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, talks about how you can make tower hardware from scraps. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about the Dynamic Nature of Your Shack * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes a look at what amateur radio was like during the 1930's. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: https://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! 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Foundations of Amateur Radio When you join the community of radio amateurs you'll find a passionate group of people who to greater and lesser degree spend their time and energy playing with radios in whatever shape that takes. For some it involves building equipment, for others it means going on a hike and activating a park. Across all walks of life you'll find people who are licensed radio amateurs, each with their own take on what this hobby means. Within that community it's easy to imagine that you're the centre of the world of radio. You know stuff, you do stuff, you invent stuff. As a community we're a place where people dream up weird and wonderful ideas and set about making them happen. Radio amateurs have a long association with emergency services. When I joined the hobby over a decade ago one of the sales pitches made to me was that we're ready to be part of emergency communications. In some jurisdictions that's baked into the license. There was a time when a radio amateur was expected to be ready to jump into a communications gap and render assistance with their station. There are amateur based groups groups like WICEN, the Wireless Institute Civil Emergency Network in Australia, ARES, the Amateur Radio Emergency Service in the United States, RAYNET, the Radio Amateurs' Emergency Network in the United Kingdom, AREDN, the Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network in Germany, DARES, the Dutch Amateur Radio Emergency Service, AREC or Amateur Radio Emergency Communications in New Zealand and EmComms in Trinidad and Tobago to name a few. Each of those manages their participation in different ways. For example, ARES offers training and certification where AREDN offers software and a how-to guide, in Trinidad and Tobago the Office of Disaster Preparedness Management is actively involved in amateur radio and maintains an active amateur radio station and five repeaters. In Australia there's a requirement to record and notify authorities if you become aware of a distress signal as a part of your license. In fact in Australia you must immediately cease all transmissions. You must continue to listen on frequency. You must record full details of the distress message, in writing and if possible recorded by tape recorder. While that scenario can and has happened, it's not common. An amateur station being used to provide an emergency link in the case of catastrophic failure has also happened, but in Australia I'm not sure if that was in my lifetime or not. My point is that the idea that we're going to put up a critical radio link and be the heart of communications in an emergency is, in Australia at least, not particularly likely. That's not to say that you should ignore that potential, or that it's universally true, but it's to point out that there are other things that you can do with your license that might happen more readily and help your community more. Outside our amateur community, there's plenty of radio in use as well. The obvious ones are volunteer bush fire brigades, state emergency services and the like. Less obvious might be the local marine rescue group, surf life saving or the local council. Each of those use radios as part of their service delivery and a radio amateur can contribute to that without needing to bring their station along. In fact, if you don't have an amateur license, but want to play radio, that's an excellent place to do it as a volunteer. I should mention that radio procedures are also in use in all manner of other professions, mining, policing, the military and aviation to name a couple, not to forget occupations like tour-guides, ferry operators and pretty much any place where telephones, fixed or mobile are not readily deployed. Within those areas there are procedures and jargon that you'll need to learn and perhaps even need to be certified for, but you as a radio amateur have several skills that you can bring to the table because you already have a license. For example, I learnt my phonetic alphabet many years before I ever heard of amateur radio. It was a requirement for my aviation radio ticket which in turn was required before I flew solo. When it came to making my first ever transmission on amateur radio, doing the phonetic thing was second nature, much to the surprise of my fellow trainees at the time. A thank you is due to both Neil VK6BDO, now Silent Key, and Doug VK6DB for making that training happen. You can apply the skills you bring with you when you join an organisation outside amateur radio who deals with wireless communication in whatever form that takes. For example, just the idea that you know how to pick up a microphone and push the Push To Talk button and speak and let the button go after you're done, a pretty trivial activity in amateur radio, will be something that you have that most of the untrained general public have no idea about. Amateur radio is a massive hobby. Playing with radio, or doing something serious with it comes in all shapes and sizes. Your amateur experience can help, but be prepared to learn different procedures and methods. The amateur way isn't the only way and it's not the only place where radio is used and sometimes it's good to have a look outside your comfort zone and see what the neighbours are up to. I'm Onno VK6FLAB

  News - Alan - https://www.instagram.com/tv/CI_NjI_AUfB/?igshid=1h7mm5ys6amy4 sounds like Alberta. Admittedly, as most often happens, the cameras don't catch the build up. At the beginning they're talking about health code, then he's under arrest.  Two big things from this video: 1- playing outside is a crime now apparently. 2- police are woefully under trained, under practiced and underprepared to actually subdue a passively resisting person.  Ian - DJI Drones added to US export ban….. https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/18/22188789/dji-ban-commerce-entity-list-drone-china-transaction-blocked https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/us-government-bans-tech-exports-to-top-drone-maker-dji/ Escape from london https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9071155/Huge-queues-train-stations-desperate-Londoners-flee-capital-ahead-Tier-4.html   Jupiter and saturn conjunction, and it’s solstice tomorrow! https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/great-jupiter-saturn-conjunction-dec-21-2020   Theresa Tam calls for stricter COVID-19 lockdown measures in hard-hit provinces   https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-tam-calls-for-stricter-covid-19-lockdown-measures-in-hard-hit/ Orillia-area citizens are using 'scanners' to disrupt OPP: police say https://www.simcoe.com/news-story/10293292-orillia-area-citizens-are-using-scanners-to-disrupt-opp-police-say/   PODCAST CHALLENGE Ian - Find three cheap non-electrical, (EMP Proof) tools at the re-store or thrift store)   Upcoming events Attend a Mapleseed event! https://mapleseedrifleman.com/  https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=t4ZDUNeL1Jg Eric -  Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) 2021 Winter Basic HAM course https://www.rac.ca/basic-course-registration-form-winter-2021/ $50 plus cost of study guide  

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1132 Release Date: November 7, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, Fred Fitte, NF2F, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Running Time: 2:05:00 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1132 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Brent Taylor, VY2HF,appointed to the Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Board of Trustees 2. Neutron-1 CubeSat Scheduled for Deployment on November 5; Other Sats Pending 3. ARRL Comments on FCC Draft World Radiocommunication Conference Recommendations 4. A Clean Sweep in ARRL November Sweepstakes Means Working 84 Sections this Year 5. Category 4 Hurricane Eta Threat Prompts Activation 6. New NIST System Detects Ultra-Faint Signals Using Quantum Physics Principles 7. Upcoming ARRL Learning Network Webinars 8. International Amateur Radio Union Region 2 Executive Committee Meets in Multiple Virtual Sessions 9. The German Town Of Bad Bentheim Is Seeking Nominations For The Golden Antenna Award 10. Space Station Celebrates Twenty Years With A Crew On Board 11. New York Radio Club Donates To Hospital For Pandemic Response 12. Amateur Puts Vintage Amateur Publications On-Line 13. FCC Paves The Way For Am Broadcast Stations To Drop Analog In Favor Of Digital Signals 14. Ulrich Rohde, N1UL, Receives 2020 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation Award 15. Radio Amateurs in Western Pennsylvania to Commemorate KDKA Broadcasting Centennial 16. Ofcom release database of Amateur Radio Call Signs 17. IEEE Technological Innovation Award Is Conferred 18. Kristen McIntyre, K6WX, is New ARRL Pacific Division Director Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, this week Leo will solve the mysterious case of the malicious PDF * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about maintenance of your tower guy lines. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, says that the excitement is palpable at the component level... * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill will relate the story of why hams in Schenectady New York can't drive down Weaver Street.. * SPECIAL INTERVIEW: Courtesy the QSO Today Podcast, we will have an interview conducted by Eric Guth, 4Z1UG, with Hudson Division Director, Ria Jairam, N2RJ. ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: http://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, AnchorFM, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, NetVibes, OverCast, Player.FM, PocketCast, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our daily feed on Twitter!

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1131 Release Date: October 31, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zitell, KD2RJX, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS Running Time: 1:27:51 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1131 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Radio Amateurs in Western Pennsylvania to Commemorate KDKA Broadcasting Centennial 2. New Zealand Radio Amateurs Lose Access to 60 Meters 3. Radio Society Of Great Britain Seeks Records Of Complaints About On Air Behavior 4. ARRL Urges Members to Join in Strongly Opposing FCC’s Application Fees Proposal 5. Oldest Known US Radio Amateur, Cliff Kayhart, W4KKP, SK at 109 6. It’s a Wrap for Hurricane Watch Net, ARES Teams Stand Down 7. Guidelines Issued for ARRL DX Contest Multioperator Stations 8. New Upcoming ARRL Learning Network Webinars 9. FL-digi Could be a Tool in the November Frequency Measuring Test 10. Federal Communications Commission Adopts All Digital AM Broadcasting 11. Vandals Destroy Firefighters Communications Repeater 12. A New Type Of Very Efficient Solar Panel Is On The Horizon 13. Vermont Radio Amateur Defends Revised Tower Plan 14. Amateurs In The United States May Get A National Day 15. Weekly Propagation Forecast Report 16. Astronomers Baffled By Large Red Strek That Has Appeared On Mars 17. Peru Sells Off Amateur Radio Spectrum To 5G Providers 18. WSJT-X Developer Expresses Puzzlement Over FT8's Use In Contests 19. Federal Communications Commission Headquarters Relocates 20. The Radio Amateur Society Of Australia Writes To IARU President Over 40 Meter QRM Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about how to keep legitimate email out of your spam folder in Gmail, and will also talk about the latest windows update release to version 20H2 * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, will talk about those pre winter tower inspections you should be doing...now. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will talk about antenna testing in the field * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill this week, Bill relates a great story, as he recalls his visit to The Land Of Nothing ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: http://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere, including iHeart, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, TuneIn, AnchorFM, Stitcher, iVoox, Blubrry, Castro, Feedburner, gPodder, Listen Notes, NetVibes, OverCast, Player.FM, PocketCast, Podnova, and RSS feeds. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our daily feed on Twitter!

Foundations of Amateur Radio When was the last time you told anyone anything about your hobby? What about someone who isn't also an amateur? Have you ever considered why there is a perception that our hobby is dying, why it's running out of people, why we struggle to get air-time in mainstream media, why attracting new members is hard and why there is a very narrow range of understanding about what our hobby is, what it does and how it's relevant in the world today? I'm a radio amateur. So are you. You might not be licensed yet, but the fact that you're here right now indicates a willingness to understand and learn, to participate and question. Those qualities are the fundamental building blocks that make up a radio amateur. I'm also a self-employed computer consultant, a radio broadcaster, an interviewer, a software developer, a public speaker, a blogger, author, publisher and a partner. My friends include people who are process managers, astronomers, gynaecologists, mariners, tow truck drivers, communications technicians, volunteer fire-fighters, business owners, employees, retirees, fathers, mothers, old, young and everything in between. Radio Amateurs one and all. When you sign up to be an amateur, you don't give up all the other things you are. You don't stop being a member of society, you just add in another box marked radio amateur and you get on with your life. If you get into this hobby you begin to realise that it sneaks into everyday life all the time. You use it to figure out how something works, or explain why it doesn't, you use it to trace a circuit or to plug in your new surround sound system. You use it to encourage curiosity in your children and to talk to your grand-children. It's not an add-on, it's part of who you are. That's always been the case, but the perception in the general public has not been like that, it's been based around the idea that being a radio amateur is being special, being separate, being knowledgeable, studied, licensed. The reality is that the world we live in is more connected than ever and the things we once did in isolation are now part of mainstream life. There is a perception that amateur radio is dying. Articles describe how we need to attract more people, how we need to appeal to children, how we need to recruit, become sexy or relevant. There's discussion about what's broken in the hobby, how we need to fix it. I think that none of those things are what's in need of investigation. I think it's us. You and I. I think we need to stop being shy about being a radio amateur, about what we do and why we enjoy it; what it means and how it works. When you talk about your activities of the day, if you made a rare contact with Tuvalu, or managed to connect your computer to your radio, or made an antenna work, or climbed on a hill or learnt Morse Code, you need to share your victories and the excitement that they bring you. As a society we're not shy about tweeting what we had for breakfast, sharing an interesting picture or discussing an article we saw on reddit. Fundamentally what you do and who you are is worth talking about and sharing. So, next time you talk about going camping, or discuss a barbecue you had with friends, or relate to your friends something that happened, don't be shy about your amateur radio affiliation. It's not a secret society, it's not weird or embarrassing, it's just part of what makes you who you are. I'm Onno VK6FLAB

This week is a full Club Spotlight with four clubs! K2Heroes Net with Peter W2JV, GOTAhams WG6OTA with Jack KM6UMQ, the Lebanon Valley Society of Radio Amateurs with Titus AB3WX, and the Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club with Joe KD0TYU. Hosts: Bob Heil, Gordon West, George Thomas, Don Wilbanks, and Amanda Alden We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv. Submit your own video to Ham Nation at HamNationVideos@twit.tv Thanks to Joe Walsh who wrote and plays the Ham Nation theme. Check out Ham Nation on Facebook and Twitter! Download or subscribe to Ham Nation at https://twit.tv/shows/ham-nation Sponsor: icomamerica.com/hamnation

This week is a full Club Spotlight with four clubs! K2Heroes Net with Peter W2JV, GOTAhams WG6OTA with Jack KM6UMQ, the Lebanon Valley Society of Radio Amateurs with Titus AB3WX, and the Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club with Joe KD0TYU. Hosts: Bob Heil, Gordon West, George Thomas, Don Wilbanks, and Amanda Alden We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv. Submit your own video to Ham Nation at HamNationVideos@twit.tv Thanks to Joe Walsh who wrote and plays the Ham Nation theme. Check out Ham Nation on Facebook and Twitter! Download or subscribe to Ham Nation at https://twit.tv/shows/ham-nation Sponsor: icomamerica.com/hamnation

This week is a full Club Spotlight with four clubs! K2Heroes Net with Peter W2JV, GOTAhams WG6OTA with Jack KM6UMQ, the Lebanon Valley Society of Radio Amateurs with Titus AB3WX, and the Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club with Joe KD0TYU. Hosts: Bob Heil, Gordon West, George Thomas, Don Wilbanks, and Amanda Alden We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv. Submit your own video to Ham Nation at HamNationVideos@twit.tv Thanks to Joe Walsh who wrote and plays the Ham Nation theme. Check out Ham Nation on Facebook and Twitter! Download or subscribe to Ham Nation at https://twit.tv/shows/ham-nation Sponsor: icomamerica.com/hamnation

This week is a full Club Spotlight with four clubs! K2Heroes Net with Peter W2JV, GOTAhams WG6OTA with Jack KM6UMQ, the Lebanon Valley Society of Radio Amateurs with Titus AB3WX, and the Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club with Joe KD0TYU. Hosts: Bob Heil, Gordon West, George Thomas, Don Wilbanks, and Amanda Alden We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv. Submit your own video to Ham Nation at HamNationVideos@twit.tv Thanks to Joe Walsh who wrote and plays the Ham Nation theme. Check out Ham Nation on Facebook and Twitter! Download or subscribe to Ham Nation at https://twit.tv/shows/ham-nation Sponsor: icomamerica.com/hamnation

This week is a full Club Spotlight with four clubs! K2Heroes Net with Peter W2JV, GOTAhams WG6OTA with Jack KM6UMQ, the Lebanon Valley Society of Radio Amateurs with Titus AB3WX, and the Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club with Joe KD0TYU. Hosts: Bob Heil, Gordon West, George Thomas, Don Wilbanks, and Amanda Alden We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv. Submit your own video to Ham Nation at HamNationVideos@twit.tv Thanks to Joe Walsh who wrote and plays the Ham Nation theme. Check out Ham Nation on Facebook and Twitter! Download or subscribe to Ham Nation at https://twit.tv/shows/ham-nation Sponsor: icomamerica.com/hamnation

This week is a full Club Spotlight with four clubs! K2Heroes Net with Peter W2JV, GOTAhams WG6OTA with Jack KM6UMQ, the Lebanon Valley Society of Radio Amateurs with Titus AB3WX, and the Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club with Joe KD0TYU. Hosts: Bob Heil, Gordon West, George Thomas, Don Wilbanks, and Amanda Alden We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv. Submit your own video to Ham Nation at HamNationVideos@twit.tv Thanks to Joe Walsh who wrote and plays the Ham Nation theme. Check out Ham Nation on Facebook and Twitter! Download or subscribe to Ham Nation at https://twit.tv/shows/ham-nation Sponsor: icomamerica.com/hamnation

This week is a full Club Spotlight with four clubs! K2Heroes Net with Peter W2JV, GOTAhams WG6OTA with Jack KM6UMQ, the Lebanon Valley Society of Radio Amateurs with Titus AB3WX, and the Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club with Joe KD0TYU. Hosts: Bob Heil, Gordon West, George Thomas, Don Wilbanks, and Amanda Alden We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv. Submit your own video to Ham Nation at HamNationVideos@twit.tv Thanks to Joe Walsh who wrote and plays the Ham Nation theme. Check out Ham Nation on Facebook and Twitter! Download or subscribe to Ham Nation at https://twit.tv/shows/ham-nation Sponsor: icomamerica.com/hamnation

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1101 Release Date: April 4, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS and and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:40:14 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1101 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. A Message from the Radio Amateurs of Canada President Glenn MacDonell, VE3XRA 2. Spain Grants Unlicensed Individuals Permission to Use Amateur Stations During Lockdown 3. Some Countries Permitting STAYHOME-Suffix Call Signs during Virus Pandemic 4. A Message To All ARRL Members and ARRL VEC Accredited Volunteer Examiners 5. Contest Entry Features Multiple Operator Locations and Remote Transmitter-Receiver Site 6. Western Pennsylvania ARES Group Conducts District-Wide Simplex Drill 7. ARES Members to Support Illinois Emergency Management Agency in Virus Response 8. International Marconi Day 2020 has been Cancelled 9. Virus Has Affects On Space Station Crew Transition 10. FCC Grants Temporary Emergency Authority to WISPs Operating in 5.8 GigaHertz Band 11. Cancelled Ohio ARES State Conference Morphs into Statewide Communication Exercise 12. Field Day 2020 A Time to Adapt - A Second Look 13. HamSCI 2020 Workshop Successfully Reworked as a Virtual Event 14. Friedrichshafen - Ham Radio 2020 Hamfest Update 15. Radio Amateurs of Canada offers new Online Amateur Radio Courses 16. The First Remote, All Online Ham Radio Exam Conducted By Exam Team In The United States 17. DX and Special Event News 18. Marking World Amateur Radio Day 2020 Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about how China wants to redesign the internet, with a one new special feature...And he'll talk about donating that old computer you have, and trying new flavors of Linux. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, Greg discusses the best procedure for removing rusty bolts on antenna installations on towers. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will tell us how to "Listen From The Ground Up" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns this week with another edition of The Ancient Amateur Archives, in this edition, Bill looks at "The Controversy Created By Incentive Licensing" Part One. * Classic RAIN: Classic Rain Edition #: "Lighten Up" An informative and entertaining talk given at the 2008 Dayton HamVention by then FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Riley Hollingsworth. K4ZDH. ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: http://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built-in ID breaks every 10 minutes. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregates like Spotify and Stitcher too. Visit our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1094 Release Date: February 15, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Rich Larence, KB2MOB, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:10:30 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1094 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. ARRL Board Grants Awards and Recognitions 2. ARRL Board of Directors Re-Elects President Rick Roderick, K5UR 3. ARRL Board of Directors Meeting Items Considered and Meeting Wrap-Up 4. U-S Marines Sponsor Ham Radio Licensing Course 5. CubeSats Deployed from the International Space Station/ISS 6. ARRL Creates New HF Band Planning Discussion Group 7. HuskySat-1 Gains Enthusiastic Following 8. WOW Signal Documentary Now Available Online 9. Successful 47 GHz Amateur Radio Moonbounce Test Reported 10. Not An Everyday Find: German Archaeologists Came Across A Russian Spy Radio 11. DX News - Work Tanzania 12. Cary Rubenfeld, VE4EA, is Radio Amateurs of Canada Amateur of the Year 13. FCC Invites Comments on 5.9 GHz Proceeding 14. Amateur Radio Community Has New Questions Over Testing For RF Exposure 15. DX News and Special Event Station Listings 16. QRZ dot com Ends Identity Verified Program 17. Dayton HamVention 2020 Web Portal Opens For Tickets and Exhibit Spaces 18. The Northeast HamXposition, formerly Boxboro, Announces New Location and Dates Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT - talks about new bugs and problems that have recently occured with Windows 7. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP - The safest way to haul cargo up your tower. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB - "How To Take Care Of Your Connectors" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - Ancient Amateur Archives - History of Amateur Radio #6: this week, we look back at the history and development of amateur radio call signs from 1912, to the present. ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: http://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built-in ID breaks every 10 minutes. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregates like Spotify and Stitcher too. Visit our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.

durée : 00:23:47 - France Bleu Auxerre Midi - Aujourd'hui 13 février, c'est la journée internationale de la radio. On aurait pu parler de nous, mais ça aurait été un peu auto-centré !

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1089 Release Date: January 11, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Paul Kolacki, K2FX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:37:15 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1089 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. ARRL DX Advisory Committee is Seeking Comment on Award Criteria, DXCC Annual List 2. ARISS Next-Generation Radio System Ready for Launch 3. US tests ways to sweep space clean of radiation after nuclear attack 4. Tickets on Sale for Dinner Events during Dayton Hamvention 5. Strong Earthquakes Shake Puerto Rico, ARES and amateur operators standing by 6. Swains Island W8S DXpedition Set for March 10th to the 25th 7. CAMSAT Says CAS-6 Activation for Amateur Use has been Delayed 8. ARRL’s New On the Air Magazine is on its Way to Members 9. China Telecoms Regulator Proposing to Delete Some Current Amateur Allocations 10. Norway Experiences Unexpected Ground Current Shockwave 11. ARRL West Central Florida Section Celebrating its 20th Anniversary this Year 12. John Litz, NZ6Q, Appointed as San Joaquin Valley Section Manager 13. W1AW to be on the Air for Winter Field Day 14. 91 Year Old Florida Amateur Submits His Three Page Obituary To Newspapers In Advance 15. Volunteer Monitor Program Coordinator Looks Forward to a Positive 2020 16. ARRL CEO Challenges Members to Dare to Imagine 17. Radio Amateurs of Canada Announces a New Section 18. Over The Horizon Radars continue to plague the HF bands in Region 1 19. DX news and Upcoming Special Event Station Listings Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT - 2020 is a year in the future - Scams * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP - New Years Tower Inspections * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB - Where to start in amateur radio * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - Ancient Amateur Archives - History of Amateur Radio * Classic RAIN: Classic Rain Edition #: Wayne Green, W2NSD Pontificates ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: http://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built-in ID breaks every 10 minutes. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregates like Spotify and Stitcher too. Visit our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1088 Release Date: January 4, 2020 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Larence, KB2MOB, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Paul Kolacki, K2FX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:09:51 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1088 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Volunteer Monitor Program Coordinator Looking Forward to a Positive 2020 2. CW ops to Celebrate 10th Anniversary with January QSO Party 3. Two Solar Cycle 25 Sunspots Appear 4. Cuba achieves 99% pass rate in ham radio exams 5. Mentally Handicapped man reunited with family, thanks to Ham radio operators 6. Computer Bulletin Board System Co-Inventor Randy Suess, ex-WB9GPM, SK 7. New 70-Centimeter Tropo Contact Record Claimed 8. Yahoo Groups Shutdown has Ham Radio Interest Groups Seeking to Save Content 9. Texas Scout Leaders Promote Amateur Radio as a Communication Resource 10. IARU Region 1 Monitoring Service Coordinator DK2OM Receives IARU Diamond Award 11. New England Radio Amateur Hosts Video on Tower Safety 12. MIT Radio Society W1MX Announces January Lecture Series on Everything Radio 13. W1AW to be on the Air for Winter Field Day 14. Radio Amateurs of Canada Announces a New Section 15. Over The Horizon Radars continue to cause widespread interference on the forty meter band 16. New Section Manager will take over in North Carolina on April first 17. Contest University, held during the Dayton HamVention, is now accepting student applications 18. Neighbors try to block an amateurs antenna tower project in Massachusetts 19. Discussion on the newly revised ARRL CW Proficency Award Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT - Windows Vulnerablities, Moores Law * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP - Tower Climbing and Sports Gear * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB - What Does AR Mean To You? * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - Ancient Amateur Archives - History of Amateur Radio ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: http://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built-in ID breaks every 10 minutes. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregates like Spotify and Stitcher too. Visit our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1084 Release Date: December 7, 2019 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Lots of news this week!! Running Time: 1:32:55 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1084 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Ed Frazer, VE7EF, appointed to the Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame 2. Youth On The Air Month Expanding into the Americas..on the air now! 3. Past ARRL Chief Technology Officer Paul Rinaldo, W4RI, SK 4. US State Department Seeks Foreign Service Information Management Technical Specialists Radio 5. UN Headquarters 4U1UN has been Back on the Air 6. Radio Amateurs of Canada appoints New Deputy Director In The Alberta/NWT/NU Region 7. The FCC Wants to Speed Up The Roll Out of Internet From Low Earth Orbit 8. Oldest Known US Ham Receives ARRL Centurion Award 9. Dayton Hamvention Admission, Fees to Increase in 2020 10. ARRL to Oppose Proposal to Eliminate 3.3 to 3.5 GHz Amateur Allocation 11. President Rick Roderick, K5UR, Heads ARRL Group on FCC Visit. 12. Election will Result in ARRL Southeastern Division Leadership Changes 13. ITU Posts Provisional WRC-19 Final Acts 14. FCC Amending Amateur Radio RF Exposure Safety Rules in Part 97 15. ARRL Asks FCC to Dismiss NYU Petition Seeking Declaratory Ruling on Encoded Message Rule 16. Waldo County Maine Emergency Management Agency Deploy a New Wide-Area, Emerg. Radio Service 17. FCC seeks comments on proposed digital AM broadcasting rules 18. DX and Special event station listings Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT - CompuServe and AOL/How Bad Is Tech * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB - Morse Code and You * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Ham Radio "On The Rails" with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP - Part 4 of 4 * The Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY - This Week: Fallen Flags - "Swan Radio" ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/iHeart-TWIAR Spotify: http://bit.ly/Spotify-TWIAR TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built-in ID breaks every 10 minutes. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregates like Spotify and Stitcher too. Visit our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1078 Release Date: October 26, 2019 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Running Time: 1:22:06 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1078 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Michigan State University Amateur Radio Club Celebrates Centennial with Second-Century Special Event 2. Pitcairn Island VP6R DXpedition on the Air; Injured Operator Evacuated 3. ARRL Creates New Online Groups for Members to Communicate with Leadership 4. FCC Turns Down Petition to Amend Amateur Radio Identification Rules 5. IARU Region 2 Third Emergency Communications Workshop Reviews Recent Disaster Responses 6. New 630-Meter Distance Record Claime 7. World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 Gets Under Way on October 28th 8. Arizona Club Takes Advantage of Low Bands to Support 100-Mile Endurance Run 9. Saudi Arabia and Seychelles Join International Amateur Radio Union 10. New Antenna Concept Uses Saltwater and Plastic Instead of Metal Conductor 11. IARU Secretary David Sumner, K1ZZ, Offers Amateur Radio Perspective on WRC-19 12. MARS Members to Work with Radio Amateurs during SET and DOD COMEX 19-4 13. ARES/ACS Support 2019 Marine Corps Air Stations Miramar Air Show 14. Missouri and surrounding area hams support major bicycle race 15. DX and Special Event Station News 16. Report causes confusion and concern in the California amateur radio community. Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Writing A Public Service Announcement to Publicize your radio club. Part 4 of 6 with KF9MP * The Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY - This Week: A Look Back At Olsen Electronics * The Random Access File with Bill Baren, N2FNH/SK - The Mystery At 154.4. * Writing a radio Public Service Announcement to Promote your Club with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP Pt 4 of 6 ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built-in ID breaks every 10 minutes. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregates like Spotify and Stitcher too. Visit our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1069 Release Date: August 24, 2019 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:12:50 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1069 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. LATE BREAKING: France Stands its Ground on 144 – 146 MHz Aeronautical Mobile Sharing Proposal 2. WWV Centennial Committee Prepares for Trial Run of WW0WWV Special Event 3. Radio Amateurs in India Support Rescue and Relief Operations in Wake of Flooding 4. Candidates for ARRL Directors and Vice Directors Announced 5. Somalia Operation Set for September 6. Alexanderson Alternator Station SAQ Hails Incredible Number of Listener Reports 7. ARRL-TAPR Digital Communications Conference Presentations Announced 8. Efforts Continue to Enhance ARES Program, Add Resources 9. Inter-American Proposal Removes 47 to 47.2 GHz from Bands under Study for 5G Services 10. ARRL Contest and DXCC Rules Now Prohibit Automated Contacts 11. Two Meter Sharing Proposal is on CEPT Conference Preparatory Group Agenda 12. Ending the Great Radio Silence after The Great War 13. FCC Staff Recommends Designating 988 as National Suicide and Mental Illness Crisis line 14. The FCC dismisses the joint ARRL/AMSAT requests in the small satellite proceeding 15. The Chinese Lunar Satellite PathFinder completes its mission at end of life 16. Several Special event stations are coming up in the next week 17. Department of Defence Message Prompts Listeners to Take WWV/WWVH Survey Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Amateur Radio History Headlines with Bill Continelli, W2XOY 7 * Classic RAIN: N/A * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety with Greg Stoddard, KF9MP ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in ident breaks every 10 minutes. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, ands all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via iTunes and Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregators like Stitcher too. Vist our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.

In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Chris Howard M0TCH, Martin Rothwell M0SGL, Dan Romanchik KB6NU and Frank Howell K4FMH to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is a double feature, a fictional book featuring amateur radio called Equinox and 40 years of BYLARA. ICQ AMATEUR/HAM RADIO PODCAST DONORS We would like to thank Phil Stephenson (K0PWS) and our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate ARRL Considering Move of Corporation from CT to DE Number of Radio Amateurs in France 175th Anniversary of Morse Code New Ham Radio Regulations in Belgium Sheffield & District Wireless Society - 100 year anniversary SARL Youth Sprint and World QRP Day Germany Permits 50 MHz Ham Radio Contest Operation Sharon White to Step Down as Ofcom Chief Executive

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1056 Release Date: May 25, 2019 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, George W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:18:33 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1056 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Hamvention 2019 - Friday Roundup 2. Hamvention 2019 - Saturday Roundup 3. Hamvention 2019 - Sunday Roundup 4. Radio Amateurs of Canada appoint two new officers 5. The Radio Amateur Society of Australia proposes 60m trial in VK 6. California Resident Sentenced To Prison For Death Threats to FCC Chairman Over Net Neutrality Repeal 7. CQ Announces 2019 Hall of Fame Inductees - Part One CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame 8. CQ Announces 2019 Hall of Fame Inductees - CQ DX Hall Of Fame / Contest Hall Of Fame 9. AMSAT-NA Issues Call for Board of Directors’ Nominations 10. NASA Invites Public To Submit Names To Fly Aboard Next Mars Rover 11. ITU Working Party 5A1 Completes Draft New Report on WRC-19 Agenda Item 1.1 12. June Event in Europe to Assess Activity, Ability to Share Spectrum on 6 Meters 13. Yasme Foundation Designates Supporting Grant, Excellence Award Recipients 14. FCC Re-Charters Technological Advisory Council for New Term 15. Springtime ARRL Section Manager Election Results Announced 16. 175th Anniversary of Morse Code 17. The 2019 Atlanta Hamfest has been Cancelled 18. RSGB announces the Cricket Championships Contest and special event callsigns Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Ancient Amateur Archives Explores Amateur Radios Rich History with Bill Continelli, W2XOY ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in ident breaks every 10 minutes. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, ands all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via iTunes and Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregators like Stitcher too. Vist our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1055 Release Date: May 18, 2019 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, George W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:23:16 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1055 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. ARRL Invites Applications for Volunteer Monitor Positions 2. Arizona Homeowners Association and Hams Agree on Outdoor Antenna Guidelines 3. First Ham Satellite - OSCAR 1 - will Join AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary Celebration at Dayton 4. The FCC is Not Reinstating a Vanity Call Sign Fee 5. Radio Amateurs to Demonstrate Emergency Messaging Capabilities for Red Cross, FEMA 6. FCC Chairman Proposes Call Blocking By Default to Combat Robocalls 7. ITU Working Party 5A1 Completes Draft New Report on WRC-19 Agenda Item 1.1 8. An Amateur Radio weather warning alerted residents of an Ohio town to a possible tornado 9. GNU Radio Conference is Seeking Papers and Presentations 10. International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend registration reaches 200 11. PIRATE Act a Good First Step But Broadcasters Saty that More Needed 12. Limor Fried, AC2SN, is Recipient of 2019 Women in Open Source Award 13. FCC Universal Licensing System is Currently Inaccessible 14. AMSAT/TAPR issue first call for papers 15. ARRL Field Day PSA 16. ARRL Field Day site locator is now live, and all Field Day materials are now available for order Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Ancient Amateur Archives Explores Amateur Radios Rich History with Bill Continelli, W2XOY * RAIN: "The Hamfest Mentality" with Orren Brand, K9KEJ ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in ident breaks every 10 minutes. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, ands all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via iTunes and Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregators like Stitcher too. Vist our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1045 Release Date: March 9, 2019 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Fred Fittee, NF2F, George W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:13:01 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1045 Trending headlines in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Some Stormy Seas for Competitive Sailors Using HF Amateur Radio 2. Radio Amateurs of Canada Publishes Amateur Radio Statistics 3. Demand High as New ARRL Introduction to Emergency Communications Courses Open 4. Technical Paper Raises Visibility of Wireless Power Transmission Interference Potential 5. ARISS to Auction HF/50 MHz Transceiver, ARRL Handbook Boxed Set 6. New ARRL Podcast Geared Toward Newcomers to Amateur Radio Debuts on March 7th 7. W6RO aboard the Queen Mary to Celebrate 40th Anniversary in April 8. Highest-Ever Summits on the Air Activation Reported 9. FCC Takes a New Tack in Combatting Unlicensed Radio Broadcasting 10. German Radio Amateur Successfully Sends 2.5 mW OPERA Signal via Es'hail-2 11. GPS Network May Experience Errors in Week Number Rollback 12. NASA Science Live Program Takes Viewers Behind the Scenes 13. Amateur Radio Volunteers Activate Following California Flooding 14. Wireless Institute of Australia hikes amateur radio fees. Amateurs not happy. 15. Hams around the world making preperations to turn the bands green during St.Patricks special event Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB * Weekly Propagation Forecast * Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY - "A Visit To Rochester, NY's Own Olsen Electronics" ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in ident breaks every 10 minutes. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, ands all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via iTunes and Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregators like Stitcher too. Vist our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.

This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1037 / #1038 Combined Edition Release Date: January 19, 2019 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by George W2XBS, and Will Rogers, K5WLR, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:31:34 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1038 Trending stories in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Japanese Ham Receives License to Operate in Myanmar 2. Court Rules Excessive Antenna Application Fees Violated Reasonable Accommodation 3. AMSAT Announces 50th Anniversary Awards Program 4. US Islands Awards Program Announces 25th Anniversary Award, Recent Rule Changes 5. Gabor Horvath, VE7JH, is Radio Amateurs of Canada 2018 Amateur of the Year 6. December YOTA Month Activity Records More Than 80,000 Contacts 7. ARRL Board of Directors' Annual Meeting to Welcome New Members 8. Over-the-Horizon Radar Reported on 15 Meters 9. Registration is Open for QRP-ARCI Four Days in May 2019 10. New General Class Question Pool Released, Effective July 1st 11. Winter Field Day 2019 is January 26th and 27th 12. Nominations Solicited for Six ARRL Awards 13. HamSCI 2019 Workshop Set for March in Cleveland, Call for Papers Issued 14. Google Assistant available via Ham Radio 15. Amateur Radio Applications in Limbo as Partial Shutdown Continues 16. North American Collegiate Championship Expanded to NAQP RTTY 17. New D-Star ONE Nanosatellites Launched; Es'hail Testing Under Way 18. Bulgaria to Host the 2019 Youngsters On The Air Summer Camp 19. RTTY and FT8 Successfully Coexist in 2019 ARRL RTTY Roundup 20. US Senate Confirms Geoffrey Starks and Brendan Carr to Full FCC Terms 21. Tickets Available for HamVentiion and Florida HamCation Convention-Related Dinners 22. Historic Schooner that Carried Ham Radio on Arctic Expeditions Undergoing Additional Restoration 23. W1AW Seeking West Coast Qualifying Run Volunteer Station Plus these Special Features This Week: * Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB * Weekly Propagation Forecast * The Ancient Amateur Archives with Bill Continelli, W2XOY presents the story of "Reginald" as enchanced for theatre of the mind, by the late Bill Baran, N2FNH/SK * Final Update on the Worked All Grid Squares contest. ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in ident breaks every 10 minutes. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, ands all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via iTunes and Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregators like Stitcher too. Vist our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.

This Week in Amateur Radio #1029 Release Date: November 17, 2018 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This weeks edition is anchored by Will Rogers, K5WLR, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fittee, NF2F, George W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:20:33 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1029 Trending stories in this weeks bulletin service: 1. Eastern Mass. SEC Rob Macedo, KD1CY, Receives Blue Hills Observatory Outstanding Service Award 2. ARRL Executive Committee Recommends Small Addition to Articles of Association 3. SpaceX launch from KSC to achieve 'dream' of ham radio enthusiasts 4. Montenegro, Lithuania Latest to Join the 60-Meter Band Community 5. Radio Amateurs of Canada Corporate Secretary Sukwan Widajat, VA3WID, SK 6. Amateur Radio Issues under Discussion in Geneva in Advance of WRC-19 7. Inaugural Green Keys Night Set for January 1st 8. Maritime Mobile Service Network Operators Assist Vessel with Ill Crew Member 9. Southern New Jersey ARES Team Assists in Missing-Person Search 10. New Beta Version of WSJT-X is Now Available, Mock FT8 Contest Set 11. ARRL November Sweepstakes CW 2018 Log Count Tops Last Year's 12. SpaceChain Foundation advances Blockchain-based satellite network 13. Amateur Radio Volunteers at the Ready for California Fire Duty 14. SKYWARN Recognition Day 2018 is Saturday, December 1st UTC 15. FCC Approves Use of Chinas Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System in the US 16. AMSAT Fox 1-Cliff satellite is launching on November 19th 17. December is Youth On The Air month Plus these Special Features This Week: Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB RAIN: Bob Heil/K9EID - Part Two of Three on the History of Heil Microphones Weekly Propagation Forecast National Grid Chase Update with Steve Ford WB8IMY and Bart Jahnke W9ZJ ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in ident breaks every 10 minutes. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, ands all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! You can find us among talk radios best on TuneIn.com, or via iTunes and Google Play. We are hosted by various podcast aggregators like Stitcher too. Vist our site for details. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with us via our Facebook group. Search for us under This Week in Amateur Radio.

This Week in Amateur Radio #1023 Release Date: October 6, 2018 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. This week's edition is anchored by: Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Amy Jo Clarke, Fred Fitte, NF2F, George W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:19:58 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR1023 Trending stories in this weeks bulletin service: 1. ARRL Foundation Invites Scholarship Applications for 2019-20 Academic Year 2. Amateur Radio Volunteers in Indonesia Link Earthquake Zone with Outside World 3. Last Man Standing ratings surge 4. Radio Amateur Among International Space Station Crew Returning to Earth this Week 5. Spray-On Antennas Could Be the Wave of the Future, University Researchers Believe 6. Radio Amateurs among Radio Club of America 2018 Award Recipients and Fellows 7. AMSAT's Fox-1Cliff CubeSat Ready for Launch 8. Peggy Sue Gerron, ex-K5PSG, of Buddy Holly song fame SK 9. MARS Members to Support Defense Department Radio Communication Readiness Exercise 10. ARRL updates its web site for better security. 11. Black Swan 18 Exercise to Test US Government/Amateur Radio Interoperability on 60 Meters 12. Investigation into International Space Station Leak Continues - may be sabotage 13. IARU Region 1 Volunteers and Partners Getting Behind WRC-19 50 MHz Agenda Item 14. Remembering the Launch of Sputnik 1-Earth's First Artificial Satellite 15. ARRL, FCC Discussing Issue of Uncertified Imported VHF/UHF Transceivers 16. Online Fundraising Campaign Backs ISS Radio Upgrades Plus these Special Features This Week: Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte, W6TWT Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB RAIN: Part One of a talk with the owners of Radio City in Minnesota. ----- Website: http://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twiar Google+: http://bit.ly/Gplus-TWIAR RSS News: http://twiar.net/twiar.rss TuneIn: http://bit.ly/TuneIn-TWIAR Automated: http://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in ident breaks every 10 minutes for you to legally identify your station. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world. on amateur radio repeater systems, the low bands, and more.

Foundations of Amateur Radio The Amateurs Code, originally written in 1928 has been quoted for almost a century. A Radio Amateur is Considerate, Loyal, Progressive, Friendly, Balanced and Patriotic. There is something almost romantic about that, but in my short life as an Amateur I've been exposed to much that leaves that as just a sentiment, rather than a social code. I'm not alone in that. I have numerous emails from Amateurs around the planet who share their negative experiences, often being bullied by self-proclaimed experts with an axe to grind. Our 1928 Amateur Code brings with it a sense of decorum, etiquette, but other than some true Gentlemen I've had the pleasure to meet, there are aspects about our community that just don't translate into today, even if the Amateur Code could lead the way. Our community of Radio Amateurs represents an opportunity to engage with society, to attract new blood, to include new ideas and to lead the way in community engagement. As one path towards growth of our hobby we have started talking about STEM, Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths as one way to relate to a wider community. That's a great sentiment, but I think we need to do some housekeeping before we embark on that journey. Amateur Radio is steeped in tradition. We use quaint terms such as OM, Old Man to describe each-other, YL, Young Lady to describe women in general and XYL for wives of Amateurs. We have a thing called a "Gentleman's Agreement" and we generally refer to Amateurs as He and Him. By doing that we've essentially limited our audience to 50% of the global population. We alienate women before we even start to engage them and when we do have female participation we get Facebook posts full of sexual innuendo, or outright sexist comments, not to mention the girlie pictures spread around the globe, sniggeringly exchanged as contact QSL cards. On air we alienate women, make disparaging or sexual comments or express our amazement that a mere female could achieve a license. What are we, pubescent boys? Is that the best we can do? The irony is that we as a community rarely discuss politics or religion. It's just not the done thing. In general day-to-day exchanges we use inclusive language. In our workplace we are sensitive to people who are different and in our laws and rules we champion equal rights for all humans, be they men, women, gay, straight, yellow, black, purple or intersex. Why is our Amateur language not inclusive in a hobby that is based around communication, where Amateurs clamour to work a pile-up on a rare DX station in some war-torn part of the globe, where science and rational thought are expected and where an Amateur Code written in 1928 encourages us to be Considerate, Loyal, Progressive, Friendly, Balanced and Patriotic? I think we need to take a long hard look at ourselves before we start going into schools and sharing what our amazing hobby is about. I'm Onno VK6FLAB